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Re: Baking started 5000 years earlier than thought
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thesweetcheat wrote:
For all the wonderful discoveries of hidden henges and passage graves, this really is mind-blowing:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/science-environment-44846874

"This happened before the advent of farming, when people started growing cereal crops and keeping animals.

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This raises the intriguing possibility that growing cereals for bread may have been the driving force behind farming."


I suppose 'baking' in different forms could go back since man first inhabited the earth. The term 'baking hot' is as old as the hills in certain countries that have extremely high temperatures with food baked on a flat stone surface found anywhere rather like the well-known egg being fried on a large boulder!


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Posted by Sanctuary
18th July 2018ce
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