Evidence mounts that the first cities are much older than we thought: Dramatic new hypothesis could change the way we understand human history - civilization as we know it may have emerged at the equator, in tropical forests, and people started farming about 30,000 years earlier than thought

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Evidence mounts that the first cities are much older than we thought: Dramatic new hypothesis could change the way we understand human history - civilization as we know it may have emerged at the equator, in tropical forests, and people started farming about 30,000 years earlier than thought