Northern Syria. First cultivation of wild cereals. This was “game farming,” not planned and organized to sustain society. The process of biological domestication, which also included the transition from a fragile to a tough stem, would not be completed until 7000 BC, or a full three thousand years later. This implies a transition that was not linear or staged, but rather a process of approaching and distancing from agriculture, ultimately culminating in the domestication of cereals.
