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Ohalo

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A flat stone ahs been found here that is 23,000 years old which seems to be made for grinding seed from wild grains (startch marks show up under the microscope).  There appears to be a stone oven nearby that was used for baking.  Ridley states: "By grinding grain to flour and baking it, the users would have nearly doubled the energy they could get from it."  Also bread appears to be older than agriculture.  

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Ohalo

Ohalo is the common designation for the archaeological site Ohalo II in the vicinity of the Sea of Galilee, and one of the best preserved hunter-gatherer archaeological sites of the Last Glacial Maximum, having been radiocarbon dated to around 19,400 BP. The site is significant because of the numerous fruit and cereal grain remains preserved therein, (intact ancient plant remains being exceedingly rare finds due to their quick decomposition).

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