Timeline of agriculture and food technology

Timeline of agriculture and food technology

• 12000 BC - Natufians in the Levant begin cultivating wild grasses.
• 9800 BC - Earliest evidence for domestic wheat at PPNA sites in the Levant.
• 8500 BC - PPNB sites across the Fertile Crescent growing domestic wheat, barley, chickpeas, peas, beans, flax and bitter vetch. Sheep and goat domesticated.
• 6800 BC - Rice domesticated in southeast Asia.
• 6500 BC - Evidence of cattle domestication in Turkey. Some sources say this happened earlier in other parts of the world
• 4000 BC - Egyptians discover how to make bread using yeast
• 4000 BC - Evidence for rice domestication in the Korat plateau area of northwestern Thailand
• 3500 BC - First agriculture in the Americas, around Central Amazonia or Ecuador
• 2000 BC - Evidence of the domestication of chickens around India. Some sources say this happened earlier in other parts of the world.
• 3000 BC - Fermentation of dough, grain, and fruit juices is in practice.
• 600 - The moldboard plough is invented in eastern Europe
• 850 - Use of coffee is known in Arabia
• 1300 - Arnau de Villanova develops alcohol distillation
• 1701 - Jethro Tull invents seed drill
• 1837 - John Deere invents steel plough
• 1863 - International "Corn Show" in Paris with corn varieties from different countries
• 1866 - Gregor Mendel publishes his paper describing Mendelian inheritance
• 1871 - Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization
• 1944 - Green revolution begins in Mexico
• 2000 - Genetically modified plants cultivized around the world.
• 2005 - Lasers used to replace stickers by writing on food to "track and trace" and identify individual pieces of fresh fruit. [1]

External links

• Global food timeline
• US only food timeline