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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 Pre-Pottery Neolithic A 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 - Egypt 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 chicken around India. Some sources say this happened earlier in other parts of the world.
  • 3000 BC - Fermentation of dough, cereal, 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 (agriculturist) 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. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/dining/19fruit.htmlpagewanted=1]
  • =External links=

    *[http://www.foodtimeline.org/ Global food timeline] *[http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/gabwea/timeline.html US only food timeline]