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Paleolithic

• 30,600 BC – Pestle used as a tool in southern Italy to grind oats.^[1]

Neolithic Revolution

• 8,500 BC – Neolithic Revolution, the first agricultural revolution, begins in the ancient Near East
• 8,000 BC – was domesticated wheat at PPNA sites in the Levant.
• 7500 BC – PPNB sites across the Fertile Crescent growing wheat, barley, chickpeas, peas, beans, flax and bitter vetch. Sheep and goat domesticated.
• 7000 BC – agriculture had reached southern Europe with evidence of emmer and einkorn wheat, barley, sheep, goats, and pigs suggest that a food producing economy is adopted in Greece and the Aegean.
• 7000 BC – Cultivation of wheat, sesame, barley, and eggplant in Mehrgarh (modern day Pakistan).

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