The earliest clear evidence of the cultivation of crops is about 11,000 years old. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A culture of the Levant lived in small mud-brick hu

The earliest clear evidence of the cultivation of crops is about 11,000 years old. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A culture of the Levant lived in small mud-brick huts and had purpose-built granaries. http://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10966.long http://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10966.long Analysis of stone tools suggests that a wide range starchy foods were being systematically gathered and prepared for much of the Middle Stone Age (~280,000 BP to ~25,000 BP) although it is unclear whether these foods were being actively cultivated. http://www.academia.edu/426173/Middle_Stone_Age_Starch_Acquisition_In_the_Niassa_Rift_Mozambique http://www.academia.edu/426173/Middle_Stone_Age_Starch_Acqui...