5,000-Year-Old Bread Discovered in Turkey Reveals Bronze Age Rituals
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5,000-Year-Old Bread Discovered in Turkey Reveals Bronze Age Rituals
Early Bronze Age bread from Küllüoba Höyük. Credit: Salih Kavak / CC BY 4.0 A 5,000-year-old loaf of bread unearthed at an archaeological site in Turkey is giving researchers a rare window into Bronze Age rituals and food culture. The carbonized bread, found at Küllüoba Höyük in the Eskişehir province, dates to 3200-3000 BC and appears to have been placed as a ritual offering rather than discarded as kitchen waste. Salih Kavak of Gaziantep Unive…
In the 2024 excavation campaign in Küllüoba Höyük, an archaeological mound located to the west of the Turkish province of Eskişehir, the researchers encountered something unusual. Under a layer of half a metre of sterile red earth, on the lowest level of a room containing six superimposed furnaces, a small [...]
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