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 WASHINGTON (AP) - Gourmets savoring their roasted figs with goat cheese may not realize it, but they're tasting history.
Archaeologists report that they have found evidence that ancient people grew fig trees some 11,400 years ago, making the fruit the earliest domesticated crop.
The find dates use of figs some 1,000 years before the first evidence that crops such as wheat, barley and legumes were being cultivated in the Middle East.
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