The team also retrieved ancient DNA from four skeletons from the later Corded Ware culture of central Europe, known for the distinctive pottery for which they are named (see photo above), as well as their dairy farming skills. (sciencemag.org)
Each of these activities of hunter, irrigation engineer and shaman was highly specialized in comparison to the more generic farming skills required for planting and harvesting. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
To see whether a fungus might have some farming skills, Junier and her colleagues paired the thick - footed morel with the common soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida. (sciencenews.org)