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Researchers Discover First Use of Fertilizer

sciencehabit writes "Europe's first farmers helped spread a revolutionary way of living across the continent. They also spread something else. A new study reveals that these early agriculturalists were fertilizing their crops with manure 8000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought."

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  1. How does this jibe with what's in the bible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I mean, the earth is only 6000 years old. Who pulled this '8000' out of their ass?