Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük:
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.
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I earned my B.A. in anthropology in 1992 and I can tell you that archaeology massively downplays any civilization that predates Egypt. There is a lot of human history that is 400 feet under the ocean on the continental shelves. One day we will have the technology to excavated if effectively and everything will have to be rewritten.
Ocean front property!
By any chance, was this 8000 year old bread found in a 8000 year old circus?
When they find the butter, I hope it looks better than the bread
Ahhhh....pumpernickel.
LMAO
It’s a horse puckey.
Mekan 66…….
Another stop on Route 66.
“Get your kicks on Route 66.”
And some old bread.
I think it would be nice if somebody were to put of these recipes into a bread recipe book, just so we can eat what they ate.
Best thing since sliced bread before there was sliced bread.
Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük:
Should be ready for making French toast
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Really stale stuff
My bad.
I thought the headline said 'Oldest broad in the world.'
Bread...coprolite...bread...coprolite...hmmmm
Kinda looks like a two-and-a-half coiler.
I started baking sourdough last summer and have often wondered how humans discovered that certain plant grains could be ground into flour, mixed with water and salt, naturally fermented, and baked into bread.
It’s not something obvious when you see a field of some edible grain waving in the wind.
This is probably as old as bread goes though, because it’s from the Neolithic. During the Paleolithic people were still on a paleo diet.
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