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==Prehistoric times== * 2.5-1.8 myr ago: Earliest estimate for invention of cooking, by phylogenetic analysis. * 2 myr ago: Hominids shift away from the consumption of nuts and berries to begin the consumption of meat. * 250,000 years ago: Hearths appear, accepted archeological estimate for invention of cooking.〔(Pennisi: Did Cooked Tubers Spur the Evolution of Big Brains? )〕 * 40,000 years ago: First evidence of human fish consumption: isotopic analysis of the skeletal remains of Tianyuan man, a modern human from eastern Asia, has shown that he regularly consumed freshwater fish.〔(First direct evidence of substantial fish consumption by early modern humans in China ) ''PhysOrg.com'', 6 July 2009.〕 * 30,000 years ago: Earliest archaeological evidence for flour, which was likely processed into an unleavened bread, dates to the Upper Palaeolithic in Europe. * 25,000 years ago: The fish-gorge, a kind of fish hook, appears. * 13,000 BCE: Contentious evidence of oldest domesticated rice in Korea. Their 15,000-year age challenges the accepted view that rice cultivation originated in China about 12,000 years ago.〔 These findings were received by academia with strong skepticism, and the results and their publicizing has been cited as being driven by a combination of nationalist and regional interests. * 11,500 - 6200 BCE: Genetic evidence published in the ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'' (PNAS) shows that all forms of Asian rice, both ''indica'' and ''japonica'', spring from a single domestication that occurred 8,200–13,500 years ago in China of the wild rice ''Oryza rufipogon''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timeline of food」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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