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Archaeologists report earliest evidence for plant farming in east Africa - EurekAlert


A trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya helps explain the history of plant farming in equatorial eastern Africa, a region long thought to be important for early farming but where scant evidence from actual physical crops has been previously uncovered. 

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