Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming

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Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming

16 July 2018

�鶹��ý. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine. — The team at the site in north-east Jordan where the earliest bread was found
Image courtesy of Alexis Pantos

A trail of ancient bread crumbs has helped archaeologists put the origins of bread making in the Stone Age. The find provides the first direct evidence that humans were baking with wheat and oats thousands of years before they began farming the cereals.

Bread has been an important staple food for millennia. have turned up in Ancient Egyptian tombs, and there are at…

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