First pots for plant cooking found

[Still Waters]

Prehistoric people may have cooked wild grains and plants in pots as early as 10,000 years ago, according to new evidence.

Scientists say the food was "a kind of porridge", acting as the staple diet when there was no meat from hunting.

The pottery fragments were found at two sites in the Libyan Sahara, which was then green and fertile.

The ability to prepare plants and grains in pots would have been a big advance at the time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38366109

[toast]

I love Eintopf hotpot!

[paperdyer]

Quite interesting.  Early man found how to soften a hard plant to make it more edible. I guess they were smarter than once thought.

[brlesq1]

I wonder how they managed to harden the clay so that it could withstand heating without cracking? Of course, I know next to nothing about pottery...