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@quartzmedia.bsky.socialOct 19, 2026, 7:06 PM

Your favorite foods have been around way longer than you think #FoodHistory #AncientFoods

dlvr.itYour favorite foods have been around way longer than you thinkPopcorn is 6,700 years old, cheese was being made 7,200 years ago, and chocolate shows up in the Amazon over 5,000 years back — archaeology keeps rewriting the history of what humans eat. Turns out our ancestors were solving the same food problems we have today: how to preserve a harvest, make tough ingredients edible, and create something worth trading.
@quartzmedia.bsky.socialOct 19, 2026, 5:05 PM

Bread predates farming by 4,000 years — and we're still making it the same way #Bread #AncientFoods

dlvr.itBread predates farming by 4,000 years — and we're still making it the same wayA charred flatbread fragment from Jordan, dated to 14,400 years ago, rewrites the story of human food: hunter-gatherers were baking before anyone planted a single crop. From tortillas to naan, the oldest cooking techniques never actually disappeared — they just changed surfaces.