https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/594bxa/the-oldest-breadloaf-ever-found-dates-back-14400-years-and-predates-agriculture > The oldest direct evidence of baked bread in archeological history, dating back an astounding 14,400 years, has been discovered in Jordan, according to research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. > This Methuselah of flatbreads was baked by a group of hunter-gatherers called the Natufians in a firepit at Shubayqa 1, an excavation site located about 130 miles northeast of the Jordanian capital of Amman. Its exceptional age is significant because it predates the First Agricultural Revolution by four millennia, suggesting that hunter-gatherers produced bread by harvesting wild cereals.