Were fig newtons the first baked good?

Dried-up figs found in what is modern day Israel may have been the first cultivated crop more than 11,000 years ago, researchers said on Friday.

Their discovery pushes back the earliest estimates of when agriculture began by 1,000 years.

I'm constantly in awe of the early humans who first started picking things up off the ground and tasting them....

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