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World's Oldest Bread Found at Prehistoric Site in Jordan

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the knead-to-know-information dept.

canopic jug writes:

The discovery of flatbread remains from around 14,500 years ago in northeastern Jordan indicate that people began making bread, a vital staple food, millennia before they were thought to have developed agriculture. The charred bread residue was found in a stone fireplace at an archeological site there.

Reuters : World's oldest bread found at prehistoric site in Jordan
Haaretz : Archaeologists Find 14,400-year-old Pita in Jordan's Black Desert

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:58PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:58PM (#708413) Journal

    Better diets, less malnutrition. And now Internet access or dead tree libraries allow exposure to abstract concepts, math, and other aspects of mankind's collective knowledge from a very early age... or watch people play video games on Twitch.

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