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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Yeah, some of these long-used processes are so non-intuitive and elaborate, one has to wonder, how was it figured out. Making bread is one of the most significant and important such.
The fermentation process didn’t need to be invented, so that was probably the first step. After a couple of hundred generations of everyone around the campfire going to sleep totally hammered, someone somewhere started to do some what-if.
Probably be ok if heated in the microwave first.
Discover they are hard to eat.
Treat them like little nuts and roll a rock over them a few times.
Try to eat again.
Not bad but we have fire, lets toast them!
Didn't turn out the way I thought. Maybe boil them after roasting them?
Yay porridge!
Not saying that was the start but maybe.
Probably work to soak it in some nice hot soup. For a while. A long while.
-PJ
I found some interesting sites about the history of grain, grinding it to flour, baking it, yeast & leavening, domed ovens.
Some think that people were making flatbread (unleavened) and some foam from nearby beer making got into the flour/water mix and caused it to rise. Interesting thought.
Stretch that out over 1,000 years, too.
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Thanks for the kind remarks.
Nothin’ in there for the site or anything I don’t recognize. But now I want a cookie. I’m eating this leftover antipasto instead.
We had been eating seeds long before we started eating grass seeds so by the time we go to that point we had a good idea how to process seeds for the best food return.
Nice hiss.😁
Looks a bit like a female Thanos.🤮
Just put it in a steam basket and it will freshen right up!..............
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