I know that I mentioned this bread thing a while back in one of the threads. Wanted to have it commemorated as a separate "break through" of our archaeologists, and have it as a part of the collection. So there we have it, 14k year old bread crumbs...
Amaia Arranz-Otaegui is an archaeobotanist from the University of Copenhagen. She was collecting dinner leftovers of the Natufians, a hunter-gatherer tribe that lived in the area more than 14,000 years ago during the Epipaleolithic time - a period between the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras.
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KD: Discoveries like these are awesome. They allow our scientific community to avoid looking for real stuff. Informational injections of this type contribute to the maintenance of the narrative, IMHO. They also numb our brains. What dinner leftovers would survive for over 10,000 years?
14,000 y. o. Bread Crumb (enlarged)
Even bread was indestructible back in the day
When an archaeologist working on an excavation site in Jordan first swept up the tiny black particles scattered around an ancient fireplace, she had no idea they were going to change the history of food and agriculture.
Even bread was indestructible back in the day
Amaia Arranz-Otaegui is an archaeobotanist from the University of Copenhagen. She was collecting dinner leftovers of the Natufians, a hunter-gatherer tribe that lived in the area more than 14,000 years ago during the Epipaleolithic time - a period between the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras.
- Natufian culture - Wikipedia
- The Natufian culture existed from around 12,000 to 9,500 BC or 13,050 to 7,550 BC in the Levant, a region in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Sources are multiple:
KD: Discoveries like these are awesome. They allow our scientific community to avoid looking for real stuff. Informational injections of this type contribute to the maintenance of the narrative, IMHO. They also numb our brains. What dinner leftovers would survive for over 10,000 years?