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WHEN, where and with what species man first began the cultivation of grain are questions intimately bound up with the development of our civilisation. Fresh light has been thrown on these questions by specimens of grain which were found a few years ago in the course of explorations carried out in Egypt by Miss G. Caton-Thompson and Miss E. W. Gardner, who have given preliminary accounts of their work in two papers1. The archæological and geological evidence given in these papers shows that this grain was grown between 5,000 and 6,000 B.C. by a people in a Neolithic state of culture, living on the shores of a lake, which still exists, though now much smaller than in Neolithic times.
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"The Recent Geology and Neolithic Industry of the Northern Fayum Desert" (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 56, 1926) and "Recent Work on the Problem of Lake Moeris" (Geographical Journal, vol. 73, 1929).
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JACKSON, A. Egyptian Neolithic Barley. Nature 131, 652 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131652a0
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