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Researchers discover before farming, we were baking bread

· July 17, 2018

Our ancestors were apparently breaking bread long before they started farming. At a recent archaeological dig in northeastern Jordan, researchers believe they have discovered the world’s oldest bread. And the charred remains of the flatbread baked by hunter-gatherers 14,400 years ago predates the advent of agriculture by at least 4,000 years. The findings suggest that […]

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