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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: 3, Informative) by Arik on Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:20PM

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:20PM (#708451) Journal
    They always try to make these things sound unexpected. In order to get more clicks, I suppose.

    14.5kya in an area reaching from Jericho north into todays Turkey is exactly where the earliest food crop activity is expected. Whether you want to call it agriculture or not is splitting hairs. They were semi-sedentary, scattering particularly valuable seeds in the most opportune spots they could find then coming back to harvest them. What do you think they were doing with them after harvest, if not making bread to eat?

    The most interesting thing is how closely this bread matches the hasty bread from the Bible, thousands of years later.
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