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Stone Age sorghum found in African cave

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Harvesting of wild grains may have begun more than 100,000 years ago.

Humans may have been baking bread 105,000 years ago, says a researcher who has discovered evidence of ground seeds from sorghum grass on stone tools in a Mozambique cave.

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Borrell, B. Stone Age sorghum found in African cave. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.1147

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