Agriculture: Fertile Crescent as Early Breadbasket From: The Washington Post | Date: November 17, 1997| Author: Curt Suplee | Copyright 1997 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Around 9,000 B.C., grocery shopping in the Middle East was a pretty dismal business. About the only place that had a decent selection was the Fertile Crescent (in what is now Turkey and Iraq), where humans had just begun domestication of eight "founder crops" that would feed an increasingly dense and complex population.

Scientists studying the origins of agriculture have been eager to know where each of those crops originated. Two locations were known. Now an international team h...

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