Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of the earliest evidence of bread-making, taking place 14,400 years ago in Jordan. The loaves of bread were made some 4,000 years before early humans started to grow and farm wheat, experts claim.Scientific analysis showed remains discovered in a fireplace were made using cereals that had been harvested, and cooked in the same fashion as modern baking.
Researchers believe the Natufian Culture may have sowed the seeds for the Neolithic(新石器时代) farming almost 5,000 years before it began in the Near East. The production of these first loaves may have been one of the key driving forces behind the later agricultural revolution, researchers now believe.
The findings were made at Shubayqa 1, which is located roughly 90 miles (150 km) northeast of Amman, in Jordan. The remains were analysed, which showed the early loaf – a kind of flatbread – was made with barley, einkorn and oat.
Amaia Arranz Otaegui from the University of Copenhagen added, “The presence of hundreds of food remains in the fireplaces from Shubayqa 1 has given us the chance to know 14,000-year-old food practices. The remains are very similar to flatbreads found at several Neolithic and Roman sites in Europe and Turkey. So we now know that bread-like products were produced long before the development of farming.”
In December, archaeologists announced they had uncovered evidence showing farming and house building among the group was more widespread than previously believed. The neolithic crops, like wheat and barley, are believed to have begun almost 5,000 thousand years later, and the Natufian Culture may have sown the seeds for this revolution to take place. Dating of the finds suggests the culture was more widespread and much earlier than previously thought.
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