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

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 Thexalon on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:45PM (4 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:45PM (#708433)

    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)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @08:47PM (#708514) Journal

    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.

    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)

      by Arik (4543) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @10:37PM (#708555) Journal
      And yet also of human failings. They figured out thousands of years ago that it needs to be nixtamlized, and served alongside beans, to reach its full potential as food. Yet today many people don't know or care, and eat it in a form more suitable for cattle.
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @04:56AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @04:56AM (#708671)

        High fructose corn syrup?

        • (Score: 1) by Arik on Wednesday July 18 2018, @05:06AM

          by Arik (4543) on Wednesday July 18 2018, @05:06AM (#708674) Journal
          Is probably no better for cattle than humans?
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