Trans-Eurasian crop exchange began 3,000 years earlier than thought

Trans-Eurasian crop exchange began 3,000 years earlier than thought

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Washington DC (UPI) Feb 14, 2020

Agricultural crops were traded between European and Asian populations 3,000 years earlier than thought, a scientific study published this week indicates. A cave excavation by Chinese scientists in the eastern Altai Mountains - which border China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Russia - yielded cereal grains radiocarbon-dated to be 5,200 years old. The samples are the oldest recorded

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