WORLD'S OLDEST BREAD FOUND AT PREHISTORIC SITE IN JORDAN"We now have to assess whether there was a relationship between bread production and the origins of agriculture," Arranz-Otaegui said.BY REUTERS JULY 16, 2018 22:33
(photo credit: JOE ROE/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)Charred remains of a flatbread baked about 14,500 years ago in a stone fireplace at a site in northeastern Jordan have given researchers a delectable surprise: people began making bread, a vital staple food, millennia before they developed agriculture.
No matter how you slice it, the discovery detailed on Monday shows that hunter-gatherers in the Eastern Mediterranean achieved the cultural milestone of bread-making far earlier than previously known, more than 4,000 years before plant cultivation took root.
The flatbread, likely unleavened and somewhat resembling pita bread, was fashioned from wild cereals such as barley, einkorn or oats, as well as tubers from an aquatic papyrus relative, that had been ground into flour.
It was made by a culture called the Natufians, who had begun to embrace a sedentary rather than nomadic lifestyle, and was found at a Black Desert archeological site.
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