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Stephen Beech

Ancient Grinding Tools Reveal Early Human Bread And Meat Cooking In Saudi Arabian Desert

State-of-the-art analysis of ancient grinding tools reveals plant, pigment and bone processing was taking place in Northern Saudi Arabia during the Neolithic period. PHOTO BY JULI KOSOLAPOVA/UNSPLASH 

Early humans were baking bread and cooking meat in what is now the Arabian desert thousands of years ago, reveals new research.

State-of-the-art analysis of ancient grinding tools reveals plant, pigment and bone processing was taking place in Northern Saudi Arabia during the Neolithic period.

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