Flatbread from wild cereals
Pan plano de cereales silvestres
- Date
- c. 14.4 ka · confidence high
- Place
- Shubayqa 1, Black Desert, Jordan
- Credited to
- Homo sapiens (Natufian)
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Charred remains of flatbread made from wheat, barley and sedge tubers, baked on stone hearths 4,000 years before agriculture. Bread is a processed, storable food.
What it led to
- An economic incentive to cultivate cereals: bread as a driver of agriculture
- A portable, long-lasting food
- Cooking as a technique: fermentation and baking
Built on
- Earth oven and clay-lined hearthsc. 32 ka
- Flint sicklec. 23 ka
- Grinding of wild cereals (grinding stone)c. 23 ka
- Grinding of wild cereals (grinding stone)
- Flint sickle
- Earth oven and clay-lined hearths
Made possible
- Cereal fermentation (beer)c. 13 ka
- Cereal fermentation (beer)