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The Zhejiang Provincial Museum on Solitary Hill contains the oldest grains of cultivated rice in the world, harvested 7,000 years ago.
Having reached this mature configuration, a person continues to pile up grains of experience, building on the existing base.
The hybridization signal was estimated on a scale of 1+ to 4+ as originally described by Meunier [ 29 ] : +, silver grains sparse, but positive hybridization; ++, silver grains are numerous but do not cover the cell type in question; +++, silver grains are very numerous and begin to merge in some places; ++++, silver grains are very dense and form a near uniform mass above the cell type in question; +/-, there was heterogeneity in the hybridization signal, e.g., some of the histological units contained a signal, others did not; -, no detectable hybridization signal.
(Requisite example of dreariness: the multipart series on grains.)
Based on his analysis of pollen grains and plant images (imprints of flowers and other plant parts) taken from the shroud, Danin says the cloth existed in the eighth century, and maybe even before.