Bread is one of the most important, most commonly consumed, and oldest food products in the world.

It's been called the staff of life.

It even gets a big shout out in the Lord's Prayer.

But how did this fundamental food, which ultimately comes from wild grass get developed?

And perhaps more importantly, why did this grass-based food become so important?

Learn more about the history of bread and how it became the staple food for so much of the world

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When trying to decipher the human use of bread, we have to try to infer things from the objects we find.

Written evidence only goes back so far, and in the big scheme of things it's

relatively recent. Organic objects like bread don't really fossilize so it's hard to

find direct evidence through really old preserved bread. The story of bread starts out with grass or to be

more specific cereal grains. There isn't much we know about when humans figured

out they could eat seeds from certain grasses, but the current belief amongst

anthropologists is that it was a relatively new addition to the human diet.

Nuts, fruits, and tubers all probably came first and well before the adoption of

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