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An Earlier Agricultural Revolution

It has generally been assumed that man first domesticated plants and animals in the Middle East. Excavations in Southeast Asia now suggest that there the revolution began some 5,000 years earlier

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 226 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “An Earlier Agricultural Revolution” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 226 No. 4 (), p. 34
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0472-34