You Are What You Eat

Paleonology is the study of organic particles such as pollen. If we take a cor sample from the earth, depending on how deep down the course sample we want to go, we can extract the pollen and it will tell us about what was going on at that point in time in the past. So if we go back to our site in modern syria called tel abu hurava, we can use paleonology to determine that the earliest residence of the site, in around 11 thousand b c, were already starting to cultivate rye. And they may have been forced to do this by the dramatic climate change brought on by the younger dryas the radical temperature drop in the northern hemisphere