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14,000 year old bread rewrites history of baking and farming

• ncmncm 6y ago
  14,000 years ago the sea level was more than 100 ft lower. All the settlements of the time that were near shore are now deep underwater. There is no limit to what may have been going on then that we may never find out about. Much of what is now sea between Britain and Norway was dry land, as was many thousands of square miles around what are now Indonesian islands, and between Australia and New Guinea. People lived there. What we do know is that less than a thousand years later, a comet strike with most likely multiple air bursts, like at Tunguska, touched off wildfires as far afield as Santa Barbara, South Carolina, Chile, Syria, and South Africa, and plunged the planet into a 1300-year-long climate crisis that coincided with, and probably triggered, the beginnings of cultivation in what is now Syria and eastern Turkey. The history we learned in school, based on writing that started <6000 years ago, followed tens of thousands of equally eventful life left unrecorded and only beginning to be discovered. We know that the 50-ton carved stone columns at Göbekli Tepe were put up starting at the end of that 1300 years, about the same time the Mayans' ancestors were operating large-scale ochre mining in Central America.