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]