Posted on 07/18/2018 6:36:50 AM PDT by C19fan
Bread is life, but according to new research, it might be even more than that. A group of archeologists in northeastern Jordan have found the oldest bread in the world, and their findings show that this bread predates the invention of agriculture by at least 4,000 years. According to this discovery, the hunt for better bread ingredients may have triggered the agricultural revolution, which would make bread largely responsible for all of civilization as we know it.
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, University College London and University of Cambridge were excavating an archeological site in Jordan when they discovered what appeared to be a prehistoric oven built by the people in that area. The oven was dated to around 14,400 years ago and still had bits of food inside it.
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I DON'T THINK SO.....................
Invented to go with their warm beer.
The grains that we grow as crops have wild precursors. It is possible that hunter gatherers collected these, ground them up, added water then baked them.
I’ll bet they found a slice of bread on the floor with the buttered side down.
It never fails.
You could sell an artifact like that for a lot of dough.
Warm beer and bread
They said could raise the dead
But it reminds me of a menu at a Holiday Inn...Jimmy Buffett
Bread? Dough?
Is that like Bitcoin...but you can bake it?
Was it stale?
Genesis 4:2
"...and Cain a tiller of the ground."
Well that’s going to need some gravy.
Peach
14,000 years ago the perfect country and western song only had to mention mama and getting drunk.
An inscription found at the site was translated as follows: “I’ll bet if we cut this thing into slices, it would be called one of the greatest things ever!”
*ping*
Some researchers believe that beer spurred the rise of agriculture!
Maybe both beer and bread did it! “Beer is liquid bread!”
Times have changed for sailors these days.
And made beer out of some of them as well?......................
They haven’t been to my mother-in-law’s house!
Actually, gathering of wild growing species of edible grains would have preceded intentional planting of selected varieties (agriculture). Beyond that, all you need to make dough is for the grains to get wet and the same wild yeasts that make sour dough would cause fermentation. Throw it on a fire (or invent a clay oven to bake it in) and you’ve got bread! Bonus: Let the grains soak and ferment in a vat of water and you’ll get a primitive sort of beer! Whether beer predated bread, or the other way around, would make a more interesting debate.
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