Posted on 07/23/2018 11:30:19 PM PDT by vannrox
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That’s no longer the case. Today, a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen, the University College London, and the University of Cambridge released a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences detailing their discovery of 14,400-year-old crumbs from a flatbread. The archaeological site, known as Shubayqa 1, is located in the Black Desert of northeastern Jordan and was home to Natufian hunter-gatherers. The flatbread remains are not only the oldest instance of bread found to date, but also preeminent examples of how bread-making existed even before agriculture developed some 4,000 years later.
“Nobody had found any direct evidence for production of bread, so the fact that bread predates agriculture is kind of stunning,” says Tobias Richter, a University of Copenhagen archaeologist who co-authored the paper. “Because making bread is quite labor-intensive, and you don’t necessarily get a huge return for it. So it doesn’t seem like an economical thing to do.” That’s because breadmaking doesn’t just involve baking: Back then, it would have also involved kneading, grinding cereals into fine grains, and dehusking plants.
Before the find at Shubayqa 1, the closest evidence of bread-like cereal meals had been identified at the Neolithic site Çatalhöyük, in Turkey. “We really didn’t think up until now that in the Natufian [period], people were making bread,” he adds. “We’ve just pushed that 5,000 years earlier.”
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Cave wife: Ugh! Who you think clean up those crumbs? Not your maid!
Oldest Subway franchise?
Did they find breadcrumbs in bed? Should they be called bedcrumbs?
Since agriculture didn’t exist then, this is clearly evidence of time travel from the future. It’s probably the remains of some left wing vegan’s lunch who traveled back in time to sabotage civilization by introducing gluten and excess carbs into people’s diets. Archeologists should look for evidence of plastic wrappers in the surrounding soil.
Little Caesars uses the same recipe today for their pizza as they did 14400 years ago.
Given that we were hunter/gathers, it should not be surprising that we ate food prior to growing it.
Uh oh, better not tell all the keto dieters who swear thousands of years ago man did not eat grains or breads.
Cave Mom: “How many times have I told you to not leave the bread out?!”
Cave Kid: “Geez, mom! In 100 years who’s gonna’ care?”
LOL
I totally agree. Many historians are piecing together parts of a puzzle they only have a handful of pieces for. There is so much speculation and conjecture taught as fact, so much pressure to conform to existing consensus. Human history is not how it is being taught in schools. Evolution over millions of years, cave men dominating the landscape for millenia. It’s all BS.
This latest find is yet another example of evidence that doesn’t fit their stupid theories.
It doesn’t seem that making a ‘kind’ of bread is that difficult.
I remember reading about soldiers who didn’t have the time or means to make ‘real’ bread but could put something together with flour and water which would stave off hunger and serve as bread.
It couldn’t have been too appetizing, but if you were starving and running for your life, it would probably taste spectacular and provide nutrition.
Pretty sure Adam and Eve's first son, Cain was a farmer.
“OLD” story.
‘Human history is not how it is being taught in schools.’
yes, of course; we should teach that the earth is 6000 years old, and that the sun revolves around the it...
Thanks vannrox and a fool in paradise.
Yeah but was it stale?
Classic academic archeologists were “there” before this decade’s IPCC climate scientists.
The level of civilization represented in the structures at Gobekli Tepe blows huge holes into what academics and evolutionists have been saying for many decades.
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