Scientists Have Discovered The Earliest Evidence of Bread, And It's Much Older Than We Expected

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[blueplum]

“Arranz Otaegui said she did not know whether the building was a dwelling or had other, perhaps ceremonial, purposes.”

not a dwelling, not a ceremonial hut, how about something more basic - a bakery!

[grey_whiskers]

I actually dated a girl named Shubayqa Breadlike

Did she have problems with yeast infections, or was she unleavened?

[TonyM]

I think my local Subway sold me a sub the other day with bread that was much older.

[EnglishOnly]

Melba Toast from a recent wedding

[DesertRhino]

“Based on the radiocarbon dates of charred plants in nearby fireplaces, the food scraps are about 14,400 years old.”

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

History... celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive; it knows the names of the king’s bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. That is the way of human folly. - Jean-Henri Fabre

[Mrs. Don-o]

Daily Bread Bump.

[central_va]

Beer came before bread. The ancients had their priorities straight.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Scientists Have Discovered The Earliest Evidence of Bread, And It's Much Older Than We Expected

Since bread has been "the staff of life" for thousands of years, I'm wondering where the people who claim to be allergic to gluten came from?

[Wuli]

Poorly written article for general public consumption in one giant respect. Readers should not have had to look up “Natufian” to find out the area believed to have been occupied by the ancient people the artcile is talking about.

A simple phrase - [Natufian], a people that occupied an area of the Levant in the eastern Mediteranean; would have explained it.

If I were the publisher, I’d fire the editors. They surerly did not think their audience was a bunch of knowledgable archeologists.

Mr. Bezos are you listening? Yes, the article is a reprint that originally appeared in the Washington Compost.

[golux]

Did she have problems with yeast infections, or was she unleavened?

I have no idea. When she wanted more than a platonic relationship, I was toast.

She lives in Iowa now with a nice Jewish man and their daughters Baguette and Bialy.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3671478/posts?page=20#20

[DannyTN]

Glad it wasn’t just me. lol

[DannyTN]

Glad it wasn’t just me. lol

[skepsel]

Sounds like the house keeping of my college roommates.