Posted on 11/22/2022 11:27:11 PM PST by blueplum
Scientists believe they have made a fascinating discovery which reveals some hidden detail about the diet of Neanderthals around 70,000 years ago. They have unearthed remains of what is believed to be the world's oldest flatbread made by Neanderthals in the foothills of Iraq. The charred remnants were recovered from the Shanidar Cave site - a Neanderthal dwelling around 500 miles north of Baghdad. The archaeologists said the findings, published in the journal Antiquity, show for the first time that bread was part of the diet among these hominid species....
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Fresh baked Tortilla ping.
Subway manager would tell workers it is still good and to not throw it out.
Neanderthal can not live by bread alone.
” Honey, I burned dinner.
Let’s, just, go out, tonight.”
70,000 years ?? Probably stale by now .......
Bread would require wheat, which would require agriculture which we are told only started ~10k years ago. And creationists used to get mocked when they claimed Neanderthals were humans with culture, language, clothes, and tools.
If a Neanderthal got on the bus with you today they’d look like a perfectly normal human.
Except for their clothing.
They never include the recipe in these darned articles.
“Bread would require wheat, which would require agriculture which we are told only started ~10k years ago”
Nope, from the link “”It seems the Neanderthals smashed or ground then soaked a mix of wild grains and grasses, wild pulses - including wild lentils, wild pistachios and, at times, wild grass seeds and grass pea fragments, then cooked the resulting mix on hot stones”
I’ve had great flat “breads” made from cattails(the plant)
Scientists unearth 70,000 year old flatbed...
Interesting, I hadn’t heard of that.
I see it comes from the starch in the roots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLb1yr7jOuc
See. Our ancestors ate all kinds of natural whole grains you carnivorous freak!
A little meat mince and home made bread,,,
Where da mustard at for dis burger?
Read later.
And I can’t seem to get my flatbread to last a week!
“Bread would require wheat, which would require agriculture which we are told only started “
Wild grains.
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