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Early Farming Communities Often Ate Weeds, Other Wild Plants, Archaeologist Finds

Thousands of years after the advent of agriculture, ancient farmers in India routinely foraged for wild plants — even weeds — when times got tough, a UCLA archaeologist has found.
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