Even during the stone age there was trading. Several species now considered essentially central/northern european are indigenous to the Mediterranean region.
Yeah, I wanted to include prehistory, too, but as we don’t have definite certainty on food trade before writing was invented, I chose to leave it out. Ethnobotany does point to active migration and mobility of animal and plant species following human flows for as long as there have been humans around. .
Even during the stone age there was trading. Several species now considered essentially central/northern european are indigenous to the Mediterranean region.
Yeah, I wanted to include prehistory, too, but as we don’t have definite certainty on food trade before writing was invented, I chose to leave it out. Ethnobotany does point to active migration and mobility of animal and plant species following human flows for as long as there have been humans around. .