Bread was around 30,000 years ago -study

Reuters/yahoo ^ | October 18, 2010

[rdl6989]

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Starch grains found on 30,000-year-old grinding stones suggest that prehistoric man may have dined on an early form of flat bread, contrary to his popular image as primarily a meat-eater.

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal on Monday, indicate that Palaeolithic Europeans ground down plant roots similar to potatoes to make flour, which was later whisked into dough.

"It's like a flat bread, like a pancake with just water and flour," said Laura Longo, a researcher on the team from the Italian Institute of Prehistory and Early History.

[rdl6989]

Ping.

[eak3]

uggh there was never any such thing as prehistoric man, there was just man!

[GeronL]

I use to make a flour and water “flatbread” when I was desperate, usually ate it with ketchup.

[1rudeboy]

This is significant, as it might drive-back the discovery of beer by 10,000 years. Think about it, we’ve been getting wasted for ten more millenia.

[EGPWS]

there was just man!

Who ate old moldy bread.

[allmendream]

Sure there was. Before man wrote history he was prehistoric man.

That is like saying there was no “bronze age” man. Sure there was. When people started using bronze tools they were “bronze age”.

[himno hero]

Given that, I would think beer would have been about the same time.

[Sacajaweau]

Why grind roots?? maybe scrape them clean...make root pancakes...like potato pancakes.

Next thing you know, they'll find a macaroni machine

[Young Werther]

Fred and Barney dropped some tomatoes and cheese slices on the bread dough and voila, Pizza.

They were baking their bread on the slopes of Vesuvius!

[muawiyah]

Before beer there was HONEY and GRAPES and OTHER WILD FRUIT. And you didn't have to even have ceramic pots to work that stuff down to a potable inebriating libation (for birthday parties and stuff like that, right).

These guys had been making cheese for at least 50,000 to 75,000 years ~ since their arrival in Central Asian ~ takes a slower sort of fermintation which requires cool weather typical of the Ice Age.

[Dallas59]

I’m one up one you...I had Wesson oil so I could make gravy. Ketchup was my vegetable.

[TexasTransplant]

Then there was BEER!

jus sayin

TT

[humblegunner]

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

I feel sorry for former employees.

Imagine being at an interview and having to state your previous job was for PNAS.

"Yes, I worked for PNAS.

I put every effort into PNAS, there were even times when I took PNAS work home.

PNAS had an important place in my life.."

[allmendream]

I imagine cheese making was more important back then as it was unlikely lactose tolerance had yet evolved in those North European and African cattle herding societies where it exists today.

Cheese fermentation makes a product that is undrinkable to almost all adult mammals into a palatable food.

[SunkenCiv]

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[dynachrome]

‘flour and water “flatbread”

Even fried in butter, it was pretty bad. (usually after I bought a pack of cigs instead of food, like ramen noodles)

[Candor7]

Pizza, Pizza, Pizza,

Prehistoric toppings!

[darth]

When the Brits first went to Tasmania, they discovered the most primitive tribe ever encountered.

The native Tasmanians did not know the use of bows, atlatls, boomerangs, boats, wooden rafts, or clothing. They did not know how to make any kind of shelter. If it rained, they got wet.

But they made booze. They gathered tree sap in bark pans and let it ferment naturally.

I think we have been getting buzzed for at least 100,000 years.

[Little Bill]

Try sourdough bread, water, salt, and flour. Make up some sourdough add the above, kneed, let it sit in your nice warm cave, punch it sown, kneed, shape, raise and bake. Save 15% or so of the dough for the next round.