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Archaeologists Discover 8600-year-old Bread at Çatalhöyük May be the Oldest Bread in the World
Arkeonews ^ | March 5, 2024 | Leman Altuntaş

Posted on 03/09/2024 4:41:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Çatalhöyük is noteworthy because it is one of the first human proto-cities to have been built. Full of densely packed mud brick houses covered in paintings and symbolic decorations, its population hovered around 8,000. That made it one of the biggest settlements of its era, somewhere between an outsized village and a tiny city. People, mud-brick homes through ceiling doors, and they navigated sidewalks that wound around the city’s rooftops.

Archaeologists have discovered an oven structure in the area called "Mekan 66”. Around the largely destroyed oven, wheat, barley, pea seeds, and a handful find that could be food were found.

Analyses conducted at Necmettin Erbakan University Science and Technology Research and Application Center (BITAM) determined that the spongy residue was fermented bread from 6600 B.C.

Head of the Excavation Committee and Anadolu University Faculty Member Associate Professor Ali Umut Türkcan told the AA correspondent that when "archaeology” is mentioned, structures, monuments, and finds come to mind...

According to Turkcan, the earliest known evidence of leavened bread comes from Egypt, while the find at Catalhoyuk predates all others, making it the world’s oldest bread.

(Excerpt) Read more at arkeonews.net ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientbread; atalhoyuk; bread; catalhoyuk; dietandcuisine; godsgravesglyphs; mekan66; neolithic; science
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1 posted on 03/09/2024 4:41:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Bump


2 posted on 03/09/2024 4:42:34 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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3 posted on 03/09/2024 4:44:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Pretty sure I had some, “bread, shelf-stable,” in the army that was older than that.


4 posted on 03/09/2024 4:45:36 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: Jet Jaguar

(insert stale bread jokes here)

Seriously though, that sets the timelines on certain things a bit earlier than we thought.


5 posted on 03/09/2024 4:46:01 PM PST by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: SunkenCiv

The original Wonder bread...


6 posted on 03/09/2024 4:46:01 PM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: SunkenCiv

bttt


7 posted on 03/09/2024 4:46:08 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Turkish Bread


8 posted on 03/09/2024 4:48:46 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: coydog

was any dough found? old coins maybe?


9 posted on 03/09/2024 4:49:14 PM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: SunkenCiv

Before they started the Best Before Date


10 posted on 03/09/2024 4:50:30 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: coydog

timelines made by people vary based on their agenda and current ways of calculating things.


11 posted on 03/09/2024 4:51:22 PM PST by b4me
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To: coydog

Before they start bragging too much, they need to check the dollar store and all the gas station connivence stores!


12 posted on 03/09/2024 4:51:59 PM PST by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pedge To Each Other, Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: SunkenCiv

So it’s penicillin now.


13 posted on 03/09/2024 4:52:28 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Adder

Ha. Old urban legend was that Twinkies would last forever. Then that was disproven.

I saw a documentary on world’s fairs that showed Wonder Bread being introduced. People must have been in total jaw dropping awe.

https://www.google.com/search?q=world%27s+fair+introduced+wonder+bread&tbm=isch&hl=en-US&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZopr


14 posted on 03/09/2024 4:52:35 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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15 posted on 03/09/2024 4:54:15 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: SunkenCiv

Quick, someone ping Steve1989.

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16 posted on 03/09/2024 4:55:05 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Maybe that’s what Pelosi baked when she took Home Economics class in high school.


17 posted on 03/09/2024 4:58:04 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: frank ballenger

We had an outlet near us when my kids were little...Wonder and Twinkies were always on the list.


18 posted on 03/09/2024 4:59:15 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Lurker

Where was the Bologna???


19 posted on 03/09/2024 4:59:21 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SunkenCiv
We all get older.

Nice to know that Señor Pepe has been preserved. Here he is in his younger days:


20 posted on 03/09/2024 5:01:09 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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