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Prehistoric flour-making dates back at least 30,000 years, according to starch traces found on grinding stones at three sites across Italy, Russia, and the Czech Republic. The residues, mostly from cattail roots and ferns, hint at a patient multi-step process: peel, dry, grind, cook. Bread, it seems, is far older than farming.
Ninety thousand years ago, people on the Semliki River in today’s DRC carved barbed bone harpoons to catch giant catfish — the oldest confirmed fishing tools ever found. The discovery confirms that early humans were engineering solutions to complex problems far earlier than the archaeological record once suggested.
