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Ohalo II on the Sea of Galilee

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c. 21,000 BC · Ohalo II, Sea of Galilee, Israel · Middle East · Science

Sown plots and grass beds 11,000 years before farming

About 23,000 years ago hunter-gatherers camped by the Sea of Galilee in brushwood huts; the lake later drowned the site, and its silt preserved even plants. It holds the oldest traces of small-scale cereal cultivation, weeds included, and a bed of dried grass on a hut floor.