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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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To: simpson96

LOL!


41 posted on 03/09/2024 8:30:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Carriage Hill

Get a better browser.


42 posted on 03/09/2024 8:31:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

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.


43 posted on 03/09/2024 8:35:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Probably be ok if heated in the microwave first.


44 posted on 03/09/2024 8:38:21 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Collect the seeds.

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.

45 posted on 03/09/2024 8:43:35 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: central_va

Probably work to soak it in some nice hot soup. For a while. A long while.


46 posted on 03/09/2024 8:45:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Twinkies?

-PJ

47 posted on 03/09/2024 8:52:10 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


48 posted on 03/09/2024 10:43:52 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Stretch that out over 1,000 years, too.


49 posted on 03/09/2024 10:44:28 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s MalwareBytes finding a problem with the website, not the Opera V95 Browser. And I trust MalwareBytes over anything else’s findings. Check your own browser Settings, for Tracker Cookies; you’ll likely have some, or worse, from that site. But I do always enjoy your posts.


50 posted on 03/10/2024 4:21:17 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: SunkenCiv

MalwareBytes defines “compromised” as:

“Compromised sites (or servers) are otherwise legitimate sites that are being used by hackers without the owner’s knowledge. Compromised sites are often used to house and spread malware.”
FYI.


51 posted on 03/10/2024 4:23:02 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Carriage Hill

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.


52 posted on 03/10/2024 8:07:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Probably.

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.

53 posted on 03/10/2024 9:15:20 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: Lurker

Nice hiss.😁


54 posted on 03/10/2024 11:42:39 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Candor7

Looks a bit like a female Thanos.🤮


55 posted on 03/10/2024 11:44:39 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Just put it in a steam basket and it will freshen right up!..............


56 posted on 03/11/2024 5:22:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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