The oat is a cereal grass grown for its seed and for fodder, valued for thriving in cool, wet climates that punish wheat. Wild oat grains have been found in a Pre-Pottery Neolithic granary in the Jordan Valley dated to roughly 11,200 to 11,400 years ago, but true domestication lagged well behind that early gathering: domesticated oat grains do not appear in Europe's archaeological record until about 3,000 years ago, arriving there as a secondary crop before becoming a deliberate planting in its own right. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Scientific Name Domestication RegionFertile Crescent (wild ancestor); established as a deliberate crop in Europe 1 Domesticated When (Circa)Circa 3,000 years ago in Europe's archaeological record, following millennia as a secondary, gathered grain 1 Era
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Domesticated oat grains first appear in the archaeological record in Europe around 3000 years ago.
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- lead: a species of cereal grass
- lead: grown for fodder; used as livestock feed
- lead: used for human consumption as oatmeal
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