Mudder of all agriculture?In "Cultivating Revolutions" (SN: 2/5/05, p. 88), you failed to mention a possibly important factor for the introduction of agriculture into Europe, namely, the creation of the Black Sea from a large freshwater fresh·wa·ter adj. 1. Of, relating to, living in, or consisting of water that is not salty: freshwater fish; freshwater lakes. 2. Situated away from the sea; inland. 3. lake at the end of the last ice age. Could this not have forced the early farmers westward after they had lost so much of their cultivable land? JOHN S. GARRIGUES, THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS Middle Eastern farmers had already colonized Colonized This occurs when a microorganism is found on or in a person without causing a disease. Mentioned in: Isolation parts of southeastern Europe by 7,500 years ago, one geological proposal for when the Black Sea formed. But it's possible that some farmers fled flooded areas into central Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, Northern, Southern and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe. , says Ofer Bar Yosef of Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. .--B. BOWER |
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