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![This ancient piece of bread, more than 14,000 years old, is changing what archaeologists thought they knew about the history of food and agriculture.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/the-4-400-year-old-charred-bread-crumb-enlarged-eb93a11acfe593a7bd53b631fa1700eca290bb9c-e1532454208839-900x422.jpg)
14,000-Year-Old Piece Of Bread Rewrites The History Of Baking And Farming
By: Lina Zeldovich | NPR
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Breadcrumbs found at an excavation in Jordan reveal that humans were baking thousands of years earlier than previously believed. It may have even prompted them to settle down and plant cereals.