Heard a doc on the radio about a dig in Turkey changing the date for farming

It was a BBC piece about the Boncuklu Tarla site. They found evidence of plant cultivation from like 10,000 BC. That's way earlier than we thought farming started in that region. Makes you wonder what else we have wrong about the Neolithic period. Anyone know of other recent finds pushing back timelines like this?

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karenb974d agoTop Commenter

Honestly, makes you wonder if our whole timeline is just a guess. Tbh my history teacher owes me a new textbook.

leewalker4d ago

It's wild how much we just accept as solid fact. You see it with food labels and health advice too, always flipping. Makes you wonder what else we're just taking someone's word for on a long chain of guesses. Your textbook is probably just the first version of a story that gets edited forever. Kind of makes you want to check the source on everything, which is exhausting.

umar494d ago

Yeah it really is a lot to take in. I mean my old bio class was like that too, half the stuff we learned got flipped around later. Kinda gave up on trusting any one book as the final word. Now I just try to see where the info is coming from and if people still argue about it. Saves some of the headache for sure.