Southwestern farmers probably began experimenting with agriculture by facilitating the growth of wild grains such as Amaranth and chenopods and gourds for edible seeds and containers.
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Bones of deer, ibex and cattle occur, and subsistence was likely assisted by coastal fishing from the very close Mediterranean Sea and by the gathering of wild grain.
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Between 13, 000 and 11, 000 BCE wild grains began to be collected as a source of food in the cataract region of the Nile, south of Egypt.
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Newer discoveries show that in the Middle East and Anatolia some experiments with agriculture were being made by 10, 900 BC . and that there may already have been experimenting with wild grain processing by around 19, 000 BC at Ohalo II.
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About twenty grinding Mesolithic culture called the Qadan Culture, which practiced wild grain harvesting along the Nile during the beginning of the Sahaba Daru Nile phase, when desiccation in the Sahara caused residents of the Libyan oases to retreat into the Nile valley.
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These pottery-making people ( the " wavy line " motif again ) were black African rather than Mediterranean in origin and ( according to Camps ) evidenced definite signs of deliberate cultivation of grain crops as opposed to simply the gathering of wild grains.
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Archaeologists have long believed that food production developed worldwide much the way it did in the Near East : As climate changes made wild grains less available, hunters and gatherers settled in villages and relatively quickly domesticated plants and then, over the next few thousand years, animals.
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The collecting of wild grains as source of food spread to Syria, parts of Turkey, and Iran by the eleventh millennium BCE . By the tenth and ninth millennia southwest Asians domesticated their wild grains, wheat, and barley after the notion of collecting wild grains spread from the Nile.
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The collecting of wild grains as source of food spread to Syria, parts of Turkey, and Iran by the eleventh millennium BCE . By the tenth and ninth millennia southwest Asians domesticated their wild grains, wheat, and barley after the notion of collecting wild grains spread from the Nile.
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The collecting of wild grains as source of food spread to Syria, parts of Turkey, and Iran by the eleventh millennium BCE . By the tenth and ninth millennia southwest Asians domesticated their wild grains, wheat, and barley after the notion of collecting wild grains spread from the Nile.
