Timeline of agriculture and food technology

== Paleolithic == 30,600 BC – Pestle used as a tool in southern Italy to grind oats. == Neolithic Revolution == 8,500 BC – Neolithic Revolution in the ancient Near East 8,000 BC – 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.