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Researchers have found the world's oldest (1) of bread. A research team from the universities of
Cambridge, Copenhagen and London found (2) breadcrumbs while on an archaeological (3)
in Jordan. The breadcrumbs were charred and burnt, which is how they (4) for so
long. The researchers dated the crumbs and found they were (5) 14,400 years old. This means
that people in the Stone Age were baking bread. The researchers said humans were making bread 4,000 years
earlier than (6) thought. The people who baked the bread lived in Jordan from around 12,500 to
9,500 B.C. They were hunter-(7) and lived thousands of years before humans settled (8) to become farmers.

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The researchers discovered 24 burnt breadcrumbs. They (9) them and found they were made
from cereal plants such as barley, (10) and oats. Lead researcher, Dr Amaia Otaegui, said the bread
took a long time to make. The ancient Jordanians began by grinding (11) into a fine flour. They then
mixed the flour with water to make (12) . After that, they baked it in the hot (13) of a
fireplace or on a hot stone. The bread looked like the (14) pitta bread still made across the Middle
East today. Another researcher said the bread could be one (15) for the agricultural revolution
starting. Stone Age people realized it was easier and more convenient to farm the wheat for bread (16) of
gathering it from the wild.