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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
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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: 2) by Bot on Wednesday July 18 2018, @09:04AM

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday July 18 2018, @09:04AM (#708712) Journal

    > the average 19th century person
    AKA a meatbag out of the industrial revolution, which needed and trained slaves. All the same, IIRC John Taylor Gatto discussed the writings of a 9 year old miner in his essay about american education, archive.org is your friend.

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