Domestication, agriculture and horticulture in the Levant

Trade presumedly drove much of the movement of domesticated animals and plants.

Era	Time	Overview
Paleolithic Period		Many goat bones have been found in Paleolithic strata of Syria and Lebanon. Sheep and goats spread from the Zagros to the Levantine interior first (modern=day Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan and Israel) and then to Anatolia.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B		Sheep bones are extremely rare in the Epipaleolithic; thus, the sudden appearance in PPNB of sheep bones must have been of a domesticated breed brought from elsewhere. This elsewhere is likely the 9,000-8,500 BC Zagros and Taurus zones, where many bones of young sheep have been found.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B	~7,000 BC	Goat and sheep bones exceed 50% of all bones after 7,000 BC at 'Ain Ghazal and Jericho.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B	7th millennium BC	Domesticated pigs are first found in 7^th millennium Pottery Neolithic layers at Jarmo (in northern Mesopotamia).
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B	~6,200-5,800 BC	The first evidence of domesticated cattle is in Anatolia, and they may have followed a similar path as sheep and goats.
Pottery Neolithic		Domesticated pigs existed at Sha'ar Ha-Golan in the Pottery Neolithic, although this is an isolated case.
Chalcolithic Period	~4,000 BC	Domestic cattle had made their way into the Near East by the end of 5^th millennium, based on finds from Anatolia and Khuzistan. The first Levantine orchards finally develop.
Chalcolithic Period	4th millennium BC	Cattle only were involved with the secondary products revolution in Mesopotamia and Egypt no earlier than the 4th millennium BC.
Chalcolithic Period		Domesticated pigs are common in sedentary villages.