The 29-site sample examined by David Meltzer's team included plant-cultivating hunter-gatherer sites in Syria.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by the primary PNAS 2014 paper, a secondary independent analysis, and archaeological literature on Abu Hureyra describing early plant cultivation by hunter-gatherers.
Sources
- News - What Caused the Deep Freeze of the Younger Dryas? - Archaeology Magazine (archaeology.org)
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1401150111 (pnas.org)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10450282/ (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)