Sung - the oldest agricultural crop of mankind?

3 figs in Gilgal (left), Iran (middle) and Turkey (right) Israeli researchers have discovered figs that range from 11,400 years in the Gilgal region north of the city of Jericho in the Middle East. These figs may have been dried before eating, proving to be the oldest trace of agriculture.

So far, the first crops are known to be rice, barley and vegetables that have been around for about 10,000 years. Paleontologist Moredechai Kislev and colleagues at Bar-Ilan University compared these necks with domesticated figs.

They found that the figs in Gilgal were a mutant variety, because the fruit did not fall from the tree, but ripened on the tree, soft and sweet. These figs do not have seeds, so the seedlings need to be replanted.

According to the study authors, deliberately planting these special fig trees is suitable for the early stages of agriculture. Among the foods discovered in Gilgal, there are wild oak, oats and barley.