Karaca Dağ
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| Karaca Dağ | |
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 Karaca Dağ
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| Elevation | 1,957 m (6,421 ft) |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 37°40′12″N 39°49′48″E / 37.67000°N 39.83000°ECoordinates: 37°40′12″N 39°49′48″E / 37.67000°N 39.83000°E |
| Geology | |
| Type | Shield volcano |
| Last eruption | Unknown |
Karaca is a shield volcano located in eastern Turkey.[1]
On 6 March 2006 Der Spiegel reported that the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne[2] had discovered that the genetically common ancestor of 68 contemporary types of cereal still grows as a wild plant on the slopes of Mount Karaca (Karacadag).[3] The results strongly suggest that slopes of Karaca Dağ provided the site for the first domestication of einkorn wheat approximately 9,000 years ago.
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- ^ "Karaca Dag". Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0103-011.
- ^ Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research
- ^ Heun, Manfred et al. (November 1997). "Site of Einkorn Wheat Domestication Identified by DNA Fingerprinting". Science (journal) 278: 1312–1314. Bibcode:1997Sci...278.1312H. doi:10.1126/science.278.5341.1312.
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