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New methods show that around the world, people began cultivating some crops
long before they embraced full-scale farming, and that crop cultivation and
village life often did not go hand in hand
According to early Greek storytellers, humans owe the ability to cultivate c
rops to the sudden generosity of a goddess. Legend has it that in a burst of
goodwill, Demeter, goddess of crops, bestowed wheat seeds on a trusted prie
st, who then crisscrossed Earth in a dragon-drawn chariot, |
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