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World's Oldest Bread Found at Prehistoric Site in Jordan

Accepted submission by canopic jug at 2018-07-17 07:53:01
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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] 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 [reuters.com]
Haaretz : Archaeologists Find 14,400-year-old Pita in Jordan's Black Desert [haaretz.com]

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