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So 4000 years before rice? I’m not subject matter expert, but this doesn’t seem quite right.
by tiahura 5y ago
So 4000 years before rice? I’m not subject matter expert, but this doesn’t seem quite right.
- mandmandam 5y agoWhy ever not? Off the top of my head, weed is miles easier to cultivate, provides far more medicinal benefit, has more complete nutrition, and gives obvious and immediate relief from pain.
- argiopetech 5y agoAlso makes great rope.
- klyrs 5y agoFirst off, the press has a bad habit of treating archaeological finds as somehow definitive. I read "first domesticated 12,000 years ago" as "earliest evidence found thus far dated to 12,000 years ago." Rice (and cannabis) could have been domesticated long before that, but without fossil records, we can't claim to know that. But... why would you assume any relationship between these two plants being domesticated?