First evidence of farming in Mideast 23,000 years ago

[Dexter]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150722144709.htm

Until now, researchers believed farming was 'invented' some 12,000 years ago in an area that was home to some of the earliest known human civilizations. A new discovery offers the first evidence that trial plant cultivation began far earlier -- some 23,000 years ago.