Central Timna Valley Project - CTV

🌾 Wheat grains from our Timna excavations just made it into Nature Plants!

An international team decoded the DNA of ancient wheat — including grains from פארק תמנע - Timna Park — and confirmed that the key genetic mutations behind crop domestication were already fully established in the Southern Levant thousands of years ago. The dry desert conditions preserved the DNA for millennia, making our finds a direct window into the origins of agriculture.

From Timna's soil to one of the world's top science journals. Not bad for a few ancient seeds! 🌱

This research is the result of a long-standing collaboration with Professor Ehud Weiss, the head of the archaeobotanical laboratory at Bar Ilan University.



https://www.academia.edu/165985291/