Editing Einkorn (section)

=== Domestication ===

Although gathered from the wild for thousands of years, einkorn wheat was first domesticated approximately 10,000 years BP in the [[Pre-Pottery Neolithic A]] (PPNA) or [[Pre-Pottery Neolithic B |B]] (PPNB) periods.<ref name=ZoharyHopf38>{{cite book |first1=Daniel |last1=Zohary |first2= Maria |last2=Hopf |first3= Ehud |last3=Weiss |title=Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The Origin and Spread of Domesticated Plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin |isbn=9780199549061 |edition= Fourth |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] (OUP) |year=2012 |page=38}}</ref> Evidence from [[DNA fingerprinting]] suggests einkorn was first domesticated near [[Karaca Dağ]] in southeast Turkey, an area in which a number of PPNB farming villages have been found.<ref name="Heun1997">{{ cite journal |author1=Heun, M. |author2=Schäfer-Pregl, R. |author3=Klawan, D. |author4=Castagna, R. |author5=Accerbi, M. |author6=Borghi, B. |author7=Salamini, F. | title = Site of Einkorn Wheat Domestication Identified by DNA Fingerprinting | year = 1997 | journal = [[Science (journal) |Science]] | volume = 278 | issue = 5341 | pages = 1312–1314 | doi = 10.1126/science.278.5341.1312 |bibcode=1997Sci...278.1312H }}</ref> One theory by [[Yuval Noah Harari]] suggests that the domestication of einkorn was linked to intensive agriculture to support the nearby [[Göbekli Tepe]] site.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Harari |first1=Yuval N. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/896791508 |title=Sapiens : a brief history of humankind |translator-last=Purcell |translator-first=John |last2=Watzman |first2=Haim |date=10 February 2015 |isbn=978-0-06-231609-7 |publisher=Harper |edition=First U.S. |location=New York |oclc=896791508}}</ref>