Five-Thousand-Year-Old Barley From Eastern Turkey Reveals the Origins of Agriculture There

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In eastern Turkey, in the province of Van, an archaeological team from Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, led by Professor Hanif Biber, has uncovered an extremely important find that sheds light on the origins of agriculture in the region. During excavations at the İremir Höyük site in the Gürpınar district, archaeologists discovered carbonized barley grains estimated to be five thousand years old – from the Early Bronze Age. The video was provided by …