- earliest crops include einkorn wheat, barley, peas, lentils,
chickpeas, broad bean and flax -- all were domesticated between 9,500 -
10,000 years ago

- DNA fingerprinting was used to trace the origin of a "founder crop"
called einkorn wheat, a hardy yellow grain

- genetic analysis suggests it may have taken less than 100 years to
transform the wild wheat into a useful crop

- first cultivated near southeastern Turkey's Karacadag Mountains

- the above research has been published in "Science" by researchers from
the Agricultural University of Norway and the Max Planck Institute in
Germany

- in the news: agriculture is the single most important event in history
which transformed "primitive human society of hunters and gatherers into
the technological civilization that dominates so much of the world
today"

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