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A team of bread found in a campfire buried under the black desert sand, northeast of Jordan. According to the team, the campfire – which is no less than 14 400 years old – and the bread made by the Natufians, became a people who lived in permanent settlements in the Levant before the summer. emergence of agriculture (about ten thousand years ago). the human being had not yet started breeding plants, and with the domestication of the seeds of culture, the Natufians did not stop to make the dough and bake it in bread. For that, they used wild grains. In the 24 remains recovered from the bread, scientists were able to identify some wild grains that can be counted among the ancestors of domesticated barley, oats and unicorns.
Bread – a flatbread – is by far the oldest. What is special is that it is over four thousand years older than the origin of agriculture. According to archaeologists, this is not a coincidence: baking bread would have encouraged hunter-gatherers to cultivate and live in permanent settlements near fields.
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