Stating that the world's oldest bread has been found is an extraordinary claim and as such, requires extraordinary evidence - and, to be fair, the recent find at Çatalhöyük is pretty extraordinary.

However, there has been a degree of hyperbole that has accompanied the announcement of this discovery and, as ever, the Prehistory Guys are here to steady the boat! (no, wait - wasn't that the last show? 😊)

00:00 - Introduction & Overview
04:22 - Qualification: earliest leavened bread vs. unleavened bread
04:47 - The Natufians
05:09 - Earliest unleavened bread at Shubayqa 1
06:18 - Domestic vs. wild cereals
07:16 - Earliest beer: Raqefet Cave
08:23 - The bread at Çatalhöyük
08:54 - Çatalhöyük is a multi-disciplinary excavation
11:02 - More on the bread
11:39 - A discovery for the world?
13:35 - “Hats off, archaeologists!”
14:18 - Wrap-up & goodbyes

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