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  • Archaeologists Discover 8600-year-old Bread at Çatalhöyük May be the Oldest Bread in the World

    03/09/2024 4:41:59 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 55 replies
    Arkeonews ^ | March 5, 2024 | Leman Altuntaş
    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...