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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, Interesting) by PinkyGigglebrain on Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:50PM

    by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:50PM (#708464)

    I used to think it was more "happy accidents" but the more I've learned about the level of ingenuity "primitive" people displayed the more I believe someone actually made the connections between grinding the grains up, mixing the resulting powder with water, then cooking it for a food. Some type of basic flatbread exists in almost every ancient culture I've ever heard of.

    Though I still think the origins of leavened breads would more likely have been accidents.

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