Hm... in my recent posting i forgot to include the reference for the
paragraph i attempted to translate:

It's from a fine and well researched book on the origins of
used plants
(in Germany but applicable and treating much of Europe and Asia).
(1):                  Nutzpflanzen in Deutschland.
                      Kulturgeschichte und Biologie.
                      Udelgard Körber-Grohne
                      Theiss Verlag
                      page 358 f.

I wrote: ...
I may attempt to translate a little excerpt of my reference (1):

"The very oldest lentils have been found in the cave Franchthi
(Peleponnes)
in the old-stone-age layers (paleolithicum, 20000-7000 b.c).

They are from wildly grown lentils, witch the humans collected
during the last
ice age, or about its end.

Together with wild cereals and seeds of other wild plants.

A similar finding  of gathered plants can be found in the same cave in the

levels above from the middle stone age
(mesolithicum, abt. 7000-6000 b.c.) ..."



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