For better or worse , farming is quite possibly humankind ’s determine growing , allowing people to settle down in one office and build the complex civilization that we live on in today . But ancient humans were n’t whole sure about this whole agriculture matter .
That ’s the determination of raw research by archeologist from the University of York and the University Bradford , who prove preparation residues from 133 ceramic vas used in ancient Northern Europe . The pots date back to around 4000 BCE , which is when the earlier grounds for agriculture is found in that particular region . As such , these pots can give us some idea of what the great unwashed were eating right at the break of the day of farming .
The cooking residues can reveal whether masses were rust plant , telluric fauna , or Pisces . While evidence of certain grains would manoeuvre to a largely agricultural existence , the bearing of fish would intimate the ancient humans still focused mostly on hunting . The researchers find that about a twenty percent of all mass found along the slide contained fats and oils that could only have fare from fish . What ’s more , locoweed from further inland still showed strong signs of Pisces , suggesting humans were getting a mass of their food from freshwater fish in nearby river .
As lead research Dr. Oliver Craig explains , this suggests that agriculture probably was n’t understand as some monumental ethnical shift , but rather something to add onto the way people already did thing :
“ This enquiry provide clear evidence people across the Western Baltic continued to work marine and fresh water resources despite the reaching of domesticize animals and plant life . Although farming was introduced rapidly across this region , it may not have caused such a striking shift from hunter - collector life history as we previously thought . ”
ViaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Image by Hans S onFlickr .
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