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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:46AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:46AM (#708648)

    I still have an uneaten burrito I got from a 7-11 in the late 70s.

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday July 18 2018, @09:08AM

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday July 18 2018, @09:08AM (#708716) Journal

    meatbags: when you proudly eat food that not even mice will touch.

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