[Sca-cooks] Early Flatbreads

[Stefan li Rous]

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Article released yesterday in the NYTimes:
"Paleolithic Humans Had Bread Along With Their Meat"

Starch grains found on 30,000-year-old grinding stones suggest that  
prehistoric humans may have dined on an early form of flatbread,  
contrary to their popular image as primarily meat eaters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/science/19bread.html?_r=1&ref=science

Johnnae >>>

Hmmm. 

Why "bread"? Why not porridge? Made with smashed grain or roughly ground grain rather than "flour" which, to me, sounds harder to do and not necessarily more beneficial. 

Maybe it's just easier to cook flatbreads on flat rocks than cooking a liquid.  Of course maybe porridge can be done easily enough without grinding the grain at all? So the fact that these folks took the time to create grinding stones and time to actually grind the grain might point to bread.

Of course the actual archeological report might have missing details that weren't in this article.

Comments? Bear?

Stefan
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