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.
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:45PM (4 children)
The modern version of unleavened bread, so helpfully kept around for a few millenia, is matzoh. But yes, I'm sure we're talking relatively simple stuff here.
However, I should also point out that the Meso-Americans who were using maize cultivated that plant, deliberately cross-bred it, and slowly turned it into what it is today. Its very existence is a triumph of genetic engineering.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday July 17 2018, @08:47PM (3 children)
It deserves to be held up as one of the best examples of human genius, bigger than the pyramids. I think I read once domestication of maize is responsible for feeding a billion people around the world.
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday July 17 2018, @10:37PM (2 children)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @04:56AM (1 child)
High fructose corn syrup?
(Score: 1) by Arik on Wednesday July 18 2018, @05:06AM
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