Timeline of agriculture and food technology

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Timeline of agriculture and food technology

12000 BC - Natufians in the Levant begin harvesting wild grasses.
9800 BC - Earliest evidence for domesticated 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.
7000 BC - the acriculture were in southern Europe there are evidence of emmer and einkorn wheat,barley,sheep,goats,and pigs suggest that a food producing economy is adopted in Greece and the Agean. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/02/eus/ht02eus.htm
7000 BC - Cultivation of wheat, sesame, barley, and eggplant in Mehrgarh (India/Pakistan).
7000 BC - Domestication of cattle and chicken in Mehrgarh, Indian subcontinent.
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
6000 BC Archaeological evidence from various sites on the Iberian peninsula suggest the domestication of plants and animals. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/02/eus/ht02eus.htm
6000 BC - Granary built in Mehrgarh for storage of excess food.
5500 BC Céide Fields in Ireland are the oldest known field systems in the world, this landscape consist of extensive tracks of land enclosed by stone walls. http://www.museumsofmayo.com/ceide.htm
5000 BC - Domestication of the horse in Ukraine
4000 BC - In Mehrgarh, the domestication of numerous crops, including peas, sesame seeds, dates, and cotton, as well as a wide range of domestic animals, including the water buffalo, an animal that remains essential to intensive agricultural production throughout Asia today.
4000 BC - Egyptians discover how to make bread using yeast
4000 BC - Evidence for rice domestication in the Korat plateau area of northwestern Thailand
4000 BC - First use of light wooden ploughs in Mesopotamia
3500 BC - Irrigation was being used in Mesopotamia
3500 BC - First agriculture in the Americas, around Central Amazonia or Ecuador
3000 BC - Turmeric, cardamom, pepper and mustard are harvested in the Indus Valley Civilization (India/Pakistan).
3000 BC - Fermentation of dough, grain, and fruit juices is in practice.
3000 BC - Sugar produced in India
2600 BC - Large scale commercial timbering of cedars in Phoenicia (Lebanon) for export to Egypt and Sumeria. Similar commercial timbering in South India.
1700 BC - Windmills developed by Babylonians; they are used to pump water for irrigation.
1300 BC - Creation of canal linking the Nile delta to the Red Sea
691 BC - First aqueduct (approx. 50 miles long) constructed to bring water to Nineveh.
530 BC - First Greek aqueduct (underground) http://www.bookrags.com/research/aqueduct-woi/
500 BC - The moldboard iron plough is invented in China
500 BC - Row cultivation of crops using intensive hoeing to weed and conserve moisture practised in China
300 BC - Efficient trace harness for plowing invented in China
200 BC - Efficient collar harness for plowing invented in China
100 BC - Rotary winnowing fan invented in China
100 BC - The multi-tube seed drill is invented in China
AD 200 - The fishing reel invented in China
600 - The distillation of alcohol in China
607 - The Chinese begin constructing a massive canal system to connect the Yellow and Yangtze rivers.
644 - Persian inventors develop a wind-power machine, a more advanced windmill than that developed by the Babylonians
850 - Use of coffee is known in Arabia
1809 - French confectioner Nicolas François Appert invents canning
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
1895 - Refrigeration for domestic and commercial food preservation introduced in the United States and the United Kingdom, respectively.
1930 - First use of aerial photos in Earth sciences and agriculture.
1944 - Green Revolution begins in Mexico
2000 - Genetically modified plants cultivated 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]