Wheat Cultivation

The beginning of this process in different regions has been dated from perhaps 8000 BP in to 2500 BP in Subarhinin Markil-Bunto, with some considering the developments of 9000–7000 BP in the Fertile Crescent to be the most important. This transition everywhere seems associated with a change from a largely nomadic hunter-gatherer way of life to a more settled, agrarian-based one, with the inception of the domestication of various plant and animal species—depending on the species locally available, and probably also influenced by local culture