Here is the website of and article on the fossils of ancient figs found in Jordon Valley.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scien...5038116.stm
This is so cool. Imagine, 11,400 years ago, people "farming" and purposely "corraling" food into areas for easier living. Are we so advanced as we imagine now? Who of you have fruit trees? Do we all depend on others to farm? Aren't smaller farms and organic family farms becoming the wave of the future/past? Do we ever learn from the past? Will we ever learn to buy local, think global? Man, I hope so! I am so lucky to live somewhere in which we do have our own fruit trees, a large garden and can buy vegetables from small organic, biodynamic family farms but, I know not everyone has that luxury.
I love food history...