FLORENCE, ITALY – The oldest grinding flour in the world will be on display at the Milan Expo 2015 and is set to revolutionize understanding of Paleolithic man, officials announced.
Found in Bilancino, Florence in 1996, the 30,000-year-old flour will be part of the Tuscany Region’s program on evolution of food.
Archaeologists discovered the flour while investigating a Neolithic settlement with stones recognized as a mill and a pestle. A research program helmed by IIPP identified starch traces on the stone as “prehistoric flour” from Typha, the marsh plant cattail.
The presence of these starch granules represent the oldest direct evidence not only of the use of food plants, but especially a real recipe for the preparation of a food of vegetable origin. The research program was funded by Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze and Tuscany Region.
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