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. [cascade flags: aggregator_dropped_primary_exists | tier=silver indep_score=1.0 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- News - What Caused the Deep Freeze of the Younger Dryas? - Archaeology Magazine (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1401150111 (corroboration)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10450282/ (corroboration)