In 2018, charred flatbread remains from Jordan suggested Late Epipalaeolithic people were baking before they started farming

Archaeologists in Jordan have unearthed 14,400-year-old charred food crumbs, revealing that baking predates agriculture. These findings at Shubayqa 1 challenge the long-held belief that bread-making emerged only after humans began farming. The discovery of the oldest flatbread, made by hunter-gatherers from wild cereals, suggests our culinary skills may have driven the development of agriculture, not the other way around.