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Judi Lynn

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Thu Jul 14, 2016, 09:56 PM Jul 2016

Scientists find evidence of new Stone Age farming population

Scientists find evidence of new Stone Age farming population

Frank Jordans, Associated Press

Updated 1:14 pm, Thursday, July 14, 2016

BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say a previously unknown group of Stone Age farmers may have introduced agriculture to South Asia, challenging earlier theories that attributed the spread of farming to a different population.

Previous research held that a single group of hunter-gatherers developed agriculture in the Middle East some 10,000 years ago and then migrated to Europe, Asia and Africa, where they gradually replaced or mixed with the local population.

But scientists who analyzed ancient human remains found in the Zagros mountains of present-day Iran say they belonged to a completely separate people who appear to have taken up farming around the same time as their cousins further west in Anatolia, now Turkey.

"There was this idea that there'd been one group of genius inventors who developed agriculture," said Joachim Burger, one of the authors of the study published online Thursday in the journal Science. "Now we can see there were genetically diverse groups."

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http://www.chron.com/news/science/article/Scientists-find-evidence-of-new-Stone-Age-farming-8378502.php

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Scientists find evidence of new Stone Age farming population (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2016 OP
Those clever Kurds! That's their stomping ground, these days..... MADem Jul 2016 #1
I'd say it argues for more extensive and rapid inter-population mobility kristopher Jul 2016 #2

kristopher

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2. I'd say it argues for more extensive and rapid inter-population mobility
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 02:10 PM
Jul 2016

- both in people and ideas - than some researchers presume.

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