The Antikythera Grain Samples
10000 BCE
Carbonised grain samples from the Ohalo II site on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, dating to 23,000 BCE, show that humans were grinding wild cereals into flour 13,000 years before the agricultural revolution was supposed to have begun. A grinding stone at the site still bears traces of starch grains from wild barley and wheat. This pushes back the origins of bread-making by over a millennium.