c. 11,000 BCE
Agriculture
Levant
Fig cultivation at Gilgal
Parthenocarpic figs found in the Jordan Valley could only be propagated by human cuttings.
Why it mattered
One of the earliest deliberate acts of plant cultivation.
Stone Age
11,000 BCE
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