People in China were engaged in fish farming at least 8,000 years ago -at least 4,500 years earlier than the records exist from Egypt, showed an international study on Monday. A team of Japanese, Chinese, German and the UK, scouring an early stone age (Neolithic) settlement called Jiahu in the present-day Henan Province in Central China, stumbled upon evidence to show that those who lived there between 6,200-5700 BC were farming common carp, a freshwater fish popularly found in water bodies in Asia and Europe even today. The new findings, published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, pushes the clock back much beyond 1,500 BC, during which Egyptians were believed to have been...
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