A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD - 13

by H. G. Wells in English Classic Stories

XIII THE BEGINNINGS OF CULTIVATION We are still very ignorant about the beginnings of cultivation and settlement in the world although a vast amount of research and speculation has been given to these matters in the last fifty years. ...Read Morethat we can say with any confidence at present is that somewhen about 15,000 and 12,000 B.C. while the Azilian people were in the south of Spain and while the remnants of the earlier hunters were drifting northward and eastward, somewhere in North Africa or Western Asia or in that great Mediterranean valley that is now submerged under the waters Read Less