How Bread Was Invented (It's 4,000 Years Older Than Farming)

How was bread invented? Not by farmers. The oldest bread in the world was baked 14,400 years ago, about 4,000 years before anyone planted a field, and it may be the accident that made ancient humans settle down and build civilization. This is the full history of bread, from the first flour to the first sourdough. We follow the archaeology from 32,000-year-old flour in an Italian cave, to a burned Stone Age camp on the Sea of Galilee, to the burnt crumbs of the oldest bread ever found in Jordan's Black Desert. Then to the hills of Turkey where wheat was first tamed, the giant feasts of Göbekli Tepe, and the ancient Egyptian kitchen where dough rose by itself and sourdough was born. You'll find out who invented bread, what ancient humans ate before farming, how bread was made 5,000 years ago, and why some archaeologists now think we didn't invent bread because we farmed. We may have started farming because we wanted bread. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 How was bread invented? 0:24 32,000-year-old flour: the first flour ever found 1:17 Ohalo II: what Stone Age humans ate 2:02 The Natufians: hunter-gatherers who settled down 2:43 The oldest bread in the world (Shubayqa 1) 3:11 Bread is 4,000 years older than farming 3:36 Why ancient humans baked bread 4:19 Karacadağ: where wheat was first domesticated 4:55 Göbekli Tepe and the first great feasts 5:38 Did bread start agriculture? 5:54 Ancient Egyptian bread: the day bread rose 6:28 Wild yeast and the origin of sourdough 6:55 The full history of bread in 60 seconds 7:17 How bread built civilization 📚 SOURCES Mariotti Lippi, M. et al. (2015). Multistep food plant processing at Grotta Paglicci (Southern Italy) around 32,600 cal B.P. PNAS. Piperno, D. R., Weiss, E., Holst, I. & Nadel, D. (2004). Processing of wild cereal grains in the Upper Palaeolithic revealed by starch grain analysis. Nature. Weiss, E. et al. (2004). The broad spectrum revisited: Evidence from plant remains. PNAS. Arranz-Otaegui, A. et al. (2018). Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the origins of bread 14,400 years ago in northeastern Jordan. PNAS. Heun, M. et al. (1997). Site of einkorn wheat domestication identified by DNA fingerprinting. Science. Schmidt, K. Göbekli Tepe: A Stone Age Sanctuary in South-Eastern Anatolia. Dietrich, L. et al. (2019). Cereal processing at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey. PLOS ONE. 🎵 MUSIC "March of the Spoons", "Investigations", "Night Cave", "Desert City", "Heartwarming" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... #HistoryOfBread #AncientHistory #Archaeology