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Agriculture Was Developed By Several Stone Age Tribes

July 16, 2016 By Sebastian Mc’Mannen 1 Comment

Agriculture was developed in the stone age through information exchange

Archaeologists find agriculture was too complex to have been developed by one tribe.

STATES CHRONICLE – New archaeological findings are showing that previous theories in regards to how agriculture developed are wrong. The theories believed that agriculture had been discovered by a single Stone Age tribe of hunter-gatherers in the Middle East. The tribe expanded and its members migrated to Europe, Asia, and Africa, where they shared the knowledge.

  • The new findings suggest that agriculture had been in fact developed by several tribes much earlier than initially thought;
  • The tribes may have exchanged their different agricultural knowledge and techniques;
  • The findings are considered to have a huge impact on the current perception of ancient history.

Archaeological Agriculture

Archaeologists uncovered a new discovery in a cave in the Zagros Mountains, near Islamabad in Iran. They have unearthed ancient human remains which do not fit the type of the local population of that time entirely.

Scientists from the United States, Europe, and Iran analyzed the remains. After examining the DNA, the scientists got to the conclusion that they were looking at bone fragments that were nine or ten thousand years old. They belonged to a man who had black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin.

Previously, archaeologists found several other sets of remains in the area of the Zagros Mountains. Scientists used all the found genomes in order to recreate an image of the population who lived so close near the current Iranian capital.

The ten thousand years old tribe resembled people who currently lives in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Zoroastrian religious community in Iran also has several features that could date back to the ancient genomes.

Scientists were also able to piece together the man’s main diet. They were surprised to find out that the man had partly lived off of cereals. The man could have had access to cereal only by being part of a community who practiced agriculture and cultivated crops.

Before the find, scientists believed that there had only been one tribe of hunter-gatherers who developed agriculture. This tribe would have been located in the geographical areas partly overlapping Greece and Turkey.

Scientists compared the genomes of the people of the Zagros Mountains with the genomes of the tribe initially believed to have been the only developers of agriculture. The results clearly identified two different but neighboring peoples.

Archaeologists calculated that the neighboring tribes had potentially been part of the same population more than 50 thousand years, greatly pre-dating the initial development of agriculture.

Scientists now believe that separate agriculture techniques and procedures could have been developed by different communities and that the information was shared among them.

Image Courtesy of Wikipedia.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Agriculture, Archaeology, Greece, Iran, Stone Age, Turkey

Roanoke Archeological Team Finds Pieces of Medical Jar

June 23, 2016 By James Faulkner Leave a Comment

Roanoke Archeologists Find White And Blue Pieces of Pottery.

Roanoke archaeologists call it the most significant and exciting pottery find since the 1940’s.

STATES CHRONICLE – Roanoke Island, or rather the fate of its colonists, is one of the most discussed folklore mysteries in American culture, to date. Recent archaeological finds, however, could shed some light on what happened to the colonists who settled on the island more than four centuries ago.
On July 4th, 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh’s scouting party arrived on Roanoke Island. It was deemed satisfactory for a settlement. In 1587, the settlement had a population of over 200 colonists. In 1590, John White, a settler and close friend of Sir Walter Raleigh, returned to Roanoke after traveling to England.
John White found the settlement entirely abandoned, with no trace of his family, or any of the colonists, and no signs of struggles or battles being fought. The word Croatoan, the name of a nearby island, was carved into a tree near the settlement, but White was never able to find out if the colonists moved there or if the Native Americans on the island had been responsible.
More recently, in 1940, archaeology sites officially began excavation and research at Roanoke. Answers were being unearthed slowly, however. The dig site did fuel several entirely different theories, but so far it was now not able to tell the modern world clearly what happened to the lost colonists of Roanoke settlement.
Two recently excavated fragments of pottery are adding more certainty that perhaps the Roanoke settlers had been driven away by a harrowing disease.
Archaeologists believe that the pieces were part of a jar which held medicinal ointment. The colors and pottery style clearly indicates that the item was made by and belonged to one of the colonists.
The site puts the final resting place of the original jar, closer to the fort rather than the actual settlement but too far for the jar to have been discarded or left empty during the time.
Researchers are currently analyzing the possibility that a disease forced surviving members of the colony to abandon their homes.
In 2015, archaeological evidence at another dig site suggests that whatever the reason the colonists had to leave, they headed northwest. Gun flintlocks, metal hook, and storage jars were found 50 miles northwest of the Roanoke settlement.
This evidence would suggest that the migrating colonists probably were assimilated by the nearby native tribes.
The two white and blue pottery shards are considered by archaeologists to be the most interesting and significant pottery find on Roanoke Island since the 1940s.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Archaeology, medicine, mystery, Ointment, Pottery, Roanoke

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