Just read about the oldest known bread in Jordan

I was looking at a report from the University of Copenhagen about a site called Shubayqa 1. They found charred bread crumbs that are 14,400 years old, which is way before farming started. It means hunter-gatherers were making flatbread from wild grains and tubers. Kind of changes how you think about why people settled down to farm. Anyone know of other finds that push back the date for stuff like this?

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holly_garcia23d ago

Yeah, it flips the whole story. Maybe farming wasn't the goal, just a side effect of getting really good at making bread.

rosel5023d ago

Totally changes how we see early humans, right? It's like they were just chasing better carbs and accidentally changed the world. What's the wildest side effect you've heard of from a simple invention?

jones.brooke9d ago

But what if they did know? Maybe they saw those first wheat patches and thought "this is it, we're staying.