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Farming has deep roots in Chinese ice age

Some ideas need time to take root: a new analysis suggests it took up to 12,000 years for people in what is now China to go from eating wild plants to farming them. Chinese grinding stones from 23,000 to 19,500 years ago show residues of plants like millet which were not domesticated in the region until 11,000 years ago. Image: aivo2010

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