Food Storage Pits
Digging and lining pits to store surplus grain and other foods, protecting them from pests and spoilage.
Core metadata
- ID: food_storage_pits
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -9000 (millennium)
- Region: Early Southwest Asian farming settlements
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Neolithic (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: edge, node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 2
- Average edge confidence: 72%
- Prerequisite sources: 2
- expert_inference: 2
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture (agriculture) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Agriculture provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Basic Weaving and Basketry (basic_weaving_basketry) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Basic Weaving and Basketry is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
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