Ancient Cookies - fresh baked?

 It turns out we, as a species, eat dessert (in a way) first.  In 2018, archaeologists discovered the evidence of a mixture of flour, grain, and roots cooked close to a fire pit dating to around 14,000 years ago.  That is 2000 - 4000 years prior to the agricultural revolution in the Levant and North Africa, certainly before Europe..  The archeologists and press like to say it’s bread, but flour with some flavor baked just so sounds a Lot like a cookie to us.  Here is a section from the story that ran in The Guardian:

"Bread [cookies] involve(s) labour intensive processing which includes dehusking, grinding of cereals and kneading and baking,” said Professor Dorian Fuller, of the UCL Institute of Archaeology.”

“That it was produced before farming methods suggests it was seen as special, and the desire to make more of this special food probably contributed to the decision to begin to cultivate cereals.” (The Guardian “World's oldest bread….., 16 July, 2018.)

So it seems pretty clear to us that about 14,400 years ago in modern Jordan, a group of hunter/gatherers started making cookies.  The cookies were so popular that it spawned the need to plant and manage grain, as opposed to simply gathering what was available.  

Because of this, the agricultural revolution occurred and then, well, really that’s kind of when human history begins.  So not only do cookies fix everything, they might of, kinda started everything in motion to begin with.  A culinary monolith of sorts, except, round and delicious and not scary at all ; ).  We always knew cookies were civilized, just pleased to see they did some civilizing as well.    

“I think I'm nostalgic for a time I never experienced.” 

 - Erin McCahan, Love and Other Foreign Words