DD'eDeN aka note/nickname/alas_my_loves wrote:
https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2022/06/olive-trees-domesticated-in-levant-ca.html?sc=1655468408292&m=1#c3423276925313683527
I've got to say, 7k years ago doesn't seem very far back. The first walled cities of the region date back like 3k years earlier. At least. Places like Jericho are older.
They actually suggests a much earlier date, as they state that the olive
tree is not indigenous to the region. But what even is the region? Modern divides don't apply...
We're speaking of PEOPLE here, not dirt. So THE PEOPLE had to be
exploiting these trees earlier and then brought them elsewhere or
traded the olives and more specifically the pits.
Would that have taken years? Decades? Centuries? Millennia?
ALSO: The mediterranean coast was HUNDREDS of meters further out
when one of the oldest known wells -- they dug s well! -- was abandoned
due to probable salt water intrusion.
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