Ancient food

Many foods that are now commonplace were being prepared by our ancestors long before modern agriculture or industrialisation began

On Monday, archaeologists revealed they had found the earliest known example of bread. The charred remains, just a few millimetres in size, were recovered from a pair of ancient fireplaces in the Black Desert, north-east Jordan. Radiocarbon dating of plant materials within the hearths revealed the fireplaces were used just over 14,000 years ago.