Food doesn't get a lot of attention compared to artifacts like a sarcophagus. A sample of ancient food and drink can offer a great deal of insight and knowledge into the people who made it.
The food archaeologists find is not something you would want to eat. It isn't usually seen as a food. These tidbits of history can still show us how far back humans have been in making some of the dishes and beverages we enjoy today. There is a meal of some of the oldest ever found here. Appetit!
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Conventional wisdom held that bread wasn't developed until after early agriculture began. It was assumed that you would need ready access to ingredients that you could harvest in sufficient quantities to make flour, as well as a structure in which to bake it.
At least 5,000 years earlier than any previous known evidence of bread-making, researchers discovered samples of a type of flatbread that is more than 1400 years old. The bread fragments were found in the Black Desert and must have been prepared by the hunter-gatherers there.
The bread could have been baked on a hot stone or in the ashes of a fire. It's possible that the sandwich was one of the original to-go meals for prehistoric people because it held fresh-cooked meat.
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Archaeologists have found a lot of things in tombs and digs. There, several blocks of white cheese were recently discovered in clay containers at the necropolis in Saqqara; inscriptions on the containers date the cheese to as far back as 661 B.C.
An old jar of cheese was found in the tomb of an Egyptian official. The sample dates back more than 3000 years.
The site of Neolithic villages that used to exist on Croatia's Dalmatian coast has been found with pottery from that time period. According to the researchers who made the find, the earliest evidence of cheese making is found in the pots.
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It is possible that hot liquids have been on the menu for tens of thousands of years since humans were able to control fire. Neanderthals may have been able to boil water and cook up a rudimentary soup by rendering fat from animal bones in containers made of hide or bark, according to a researcher.
We don't see soup as soup from our perspective. In 2012 Harvard researchers working in China discovered 20,000 year old pottery that was waterproof and heatproof, two basic qualities you would need in a soup-worthy vessel. There is no evidence that the early cooks were making soup. Archaeologists don't have a lot of evidence because soup is mostly liquid and liquid tends to evaporate over time.
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Since our hunter-gatherer days, the practice of drinking wine has been a part of our daily lives. Some biologists think that our pre-human ancestors could have been looking for fermented fruit to get a buzz.
Underwater wine jars suggest how Romans kept wine safe and delicious.
Viniculture, the practice of growing grapes specifically to make wine, came much later. The oldest known evidence of winemaking comes from 8,000-year-old jars found in Georgia. The jars were once filled with wine, according to chemical analysis. Some of the jars had pictures of grapes and a man dancing on them.
In the case of the famous Speyer wine bottle, the odds of finding ancient wine in liquid form are extremely slim. The bottle was found in the ruins of a Roman tomb in Germany.
A mixture of locallysourced wine infused with herbs, as well as a quantity of olive oil, was used to seal and protect the wine from exposure to air. You can still see the bottle and its contents at the museum even though you can't drink it. Thank you!
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