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Chinese archeologists find 2600-year-old processed wheaten food remains
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Monday, 30 March, 2015, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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fiogf49gjkf0d Chinese archeologists have found the oldest processed wheaten food remains ever unearthed in the country, indicating people ate bread-like food 2,600 to 2,900 years ago.
Yang Yimin, associate professor with the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said recently that his team had used infrared scans to screen the food remains, which were discovered in pottery wares unearthed from Yanghai Cemetery in north China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
"The ingredients were mainly flour made from barley and millet. It was also mixed with lactobacillus and yeast," he said.
The food was made in a period between China's Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BC) and Spring and Autumn Period (722-476 BC).
Yang said the discovery showed wheat became an important staple food in Xinjiang for that period.
Food decomposes quickly and is rarely found at archeological sites. However, the remains were preserved at Yanghai Cemetery because of the extremely arid climate in the Gobi Desert, south of Huoyan (Flaming) Mountain in Xinjiang's Turpan Basin, which is known for its extreme heat in day time.
Source: Xinhua
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