Scientists discover remains of 14,000-year-old bread
A new study states that the oldest bread that dates back to at least 4,000 years before the advent of agriculture was found in Natufian hunter-gatherer site known as Shubayqa 1 located in the Black Desert.
This study was published on Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The report states that the charred remains of the baked flatbread were gathered by hunter some 14,400 years at northeastern Jordan.
The report also states that the bread produced was from wild cereals which would have possibly gathered by a hunter to cultivate cereals.
Collaborative research involving UCL archaeologists has uncovered the oldest direct evidence of bread found to date, predating the advent of agriculture by at least 4,000 years. Analysis & identification carried out by Lara Gonzalez Carretero of @UCL IoAhttps://t.co/SErjN5ReTS pic.twitter.com/MFkwvtiUuB
— UCL Archaeology (@UCLarchaeology) July 17, 2018
An archaeobotanist from the University of Copenhagen said, "The 24 remains analysed in this study show that wild ancestors of domesticated cereals such as barley, einkorn, and oat had been ground, sieved and kneaded prior to cooking.
The remains are very similar to unleavened flatbreads identified at several Neolithic and Roman sites in Europe and Turkey," He also added that bread-like products were produced long before the development of farming.
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First published: 19 July 2018, 12:36 IST
