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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 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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