ASMR The True History of Bread

We all have a basic idea of the history of bread and domestication of wheat in Mesopotamia, but is that the full extent of the story?

*cue mysterious music*

Find out tonight as we discuss *dun dun* the TRUE history of bread.

(Many thanks to the amazing researchers who have brought this information to light:

Arranz-Otaegui A, Gonzalez Carretero L, Ramsey MN, Fuller DQ, Richter T (2018) Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the origins of bread 14,400 years ago in northeastern Jordan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, 7925.

Dodson J, Fullagar R, Furby J, Jones R, Prosser I (1993) Humans and megafauna in a late Pleistocene environment from Cuddie Springs, north western New South Wales. Archaeology in Oceania 28, 94-99.

Fullagar R, Field J (1997) Pleistocene seed-grinding implements from the Australian arid zone. Antiquity 71, 300-307.

Fullagar R, Hayes E, Stephenson B, Field J, Matheson C, Stern N, Fitzsimmons K (2015) Evidence for Pleistocene seed grinding at Lake Mungo, south-eastern Australia. 50, 3-19.

Mercader J (2009) Mozambican Grass Seed Consumption During the Middle Stone Age. Science 326, 1680.

Piperno DR, Weiss E, Holst I, Nadel D (2004) Processing of wild cereal grains in the Upper Palaeolithic revealed by starch grain analysis. Nature 430, 670-673.

Revedin A, Aranguren B, et al. (2010) Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, 18815. )

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