Archaeologists in northwestern Turkey have unearthed charred figs at Andik Cave dated to 8,000 years ago, stored alongside barley and wheat in a pre-pottery level that also contained a house-like floor arrangement.
Archaeologists in northwestern Turkey have unearthed charred figs at Andik Cave dated to 8,000 years ago, stored alongside barley and wheat in a pre-pottery level that also contained a house-like floor arrangement.
Stop the presses: farmers who stored barley and wheat also kept figs. Who could have predicted that a cave full of grain had more food in it? Dried fruit survives millennia — that’s the entire purpose of drying it. Next headline: ancient humans reportedly ate. Somewhere, a grant application just wrote itself. Riveting.