miércoles, 20 de marzo de 2013

Rewriting Biblical history? Agriculture might be 5,000 years older than believed.

A new find suggests farmers in Bible lands built channels for irrigation long before historians thought they did, allowing for cultivated vineyards, olives, wheat and barley.

For thousands of years, different groups of people have lived in the Negev desert, building stone walls and cities that survive to this day. But how did they make their living?

The current thinking is that these desert denizens didn't practice agriculture before approximately the first century, surviving instead by raising animals, said Hendrik Bruins, a landscape archaeologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

But new research suggests people in this area, the Negev highlands, practiced agriculture as long ago as 5000 B.C., Bruins told LiveScience. If true, the finding could change historians' views of the area's inhabitants, who lived in the region in biblical times and even before, he added. [...] csmonitor.com/

Actualización 25-03-13. La agricultura en Israel comenzó probablemente 5.000 años antes de lo pensado
Una nueva investigación sugiere que las gentes de esta zona, las tierras altas del Negev, practicaban la agricultura ya en el año 5.000 a.C., dijo Bruins a LiveScience. Si es verdad, el hallazgo podría cambiar el punto de vista de los historiadores sobre los habitantes de esta área, los cuales han vivido en la región desde los tiempos bíblicos, e incluso antes, agregó.

Los hallazgos de Bruins provienen de la datación mediante radiocarbono de huesos y materiales orgánicos de diferentes capas del suelo en un campo antiguo al sur de Israel...

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