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Listening Unit one passage 12
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★Listen to a discussion between two archaeology students. They are preparing for a class presentation.
W: I read the prehistoric people had settled in villages in start farming when they could no longer survive just by hunting and gathering. The idea was that they push out of the best land as the population grew, most likely they and notice that some seeds sprang out when they drop them, so when the prehistoric people had to move to less productive area, they settled in permanent villages there and started planting seeds to keep from starving.
M: That was their thinking until two years ago when archaeologists found evident that goes against that theory. The new idea is that farming developed in the richest land areas and the people who started it wasn't been threaten by starvation, and apparently successful hundred gatherers living in villages long before they started cultivating crops, this period story villages just wanted to have more stable foods supply.
W: What? You mean people settled in the villages where they were still hunting and gathering wild food to eat? How did the archaeologists come to that conclusion?
M: Well, one way was a new more accurate method that dating a small piece or something like grain of corn or wheat, you know earlier archeologists couldn't date something that small so they have to date say the charcoal around them to get the estimated age.
W: So with the new technique to determine the age of the tiny sample, they found out the grain was older than they had thought?
M: No, just the opposite. They found out was much younger, so that meant the mastication of grain probably occurred long after people had begun living in the villages.
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