{"id":202634,"date":"2024-12-28T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-say-bakers-were-making-an-early-version-of-focaccia-bread-9000-years-ago"},"modified":"2024-12-28T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T14:42:00","slug":"scientists-say-bakers-were-making-an-early-version-of-focaccia-bread-9000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-say-bakers-were-making-an-early-version-of-focaccia-bread-9000-years-ago","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say Bakers Were Making an Early Version of Focaccia Bread 9,000 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-bakers-were-making-an-early-version-of-focaccia-bread-9000-years-ago.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Focaccia, with its flaky crust and rich olive oil flavor, is a beloved staple\u2014but just how far back does the delicious bread\u2019s history stretch?<\/p>\n<p>While experts know it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/pompeii-fresco-pizza-180982446\/\">made in ancient Rome<\/a>, new research suggests that its origins may be even older: According to a recent study in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-024-78019-9\"><em>Scientific Reports<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> Neolithic communities were making their own focaccia-like bread between 7,000 and 5,000 B.C.E.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudying past dietary behaviors can provide valuable information about the social and cultural aspects of ancient populations,\u201d first author <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwuniroma1.academia.edu\/SergioTaranto\">Sergio Taranto<\/a>, an archaeologist at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uab.cat\/web\/universitat-autonoma-de-barcelona-1345467954774.html\">UAB Barcelona<\/a>, tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/science\/news-science\/focaccia-baked-in-husking-trays\/\"><em>ZME Science<\/em><\/a>\u2019s Rupendra Brahambhatt<em>. <\/em>\u201cThis is particularly useful for studying prehistoric communities about which we have limited knowledge due to the lack of written records.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focaccia, with its flaky crust and rich olive oil flavor, is a beloved staple\u2014but just how far back does the delicious bread\u2019s history stretch? While experts know it was made in ancient Rome, new research suggests that its origins may be even older: According to a recent study in the journal Scientific Reports, Neolithic communities [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}