The First FarmersEconomy & Trade Emmer and einkorn wheat c. 9,500 BCEMajor The first wheats domesticated in the Fertile Crescent, ancestors of modern bread wheat. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Emmer and einkorn wheat Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentjournals.uchicago.eduThe Neolithic Southwest Asian founder crops: their biology and archaeobotany (Weiss and Zohary, Current Anthropology 2011) ↗Editor's pickBookDaniel Zohary, Maria Hopf and Ehud WeissDomestication of Plants in the Old World ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubedomestication of wheat einkorn emmer ↗Editor's pick