Timeline for Did flatbread originate in one place?
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| Apr 17, 2015 at 10:37 | comment | added | Zither13 | @ Brian Drummond Except that maize didn't develop for thousands of years after leaving Asia, & I do not recall any early site finds of manos and metates or other means of grinding grain. SoCal natives ground acorns, but did not make flatbread, IIRC. | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 10:45 | comment | added | user_1818839 | Not sure we can rule out some knowledge of flatbread early enough that the Bering Strait was still passable, so perhaps tortillas could have come from Asia via Siberia. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 17:58 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackHistory/status/510487596124749824 | ||
| Sep 11, 2014 at 16:10 | comment | added | neubau | According to Wikipedia, corn tortillas in the Americas predate European contact. On that basis, the answer would be no. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 15:06 | comment | added | MCW♦ | I suspect this is in the realm of prehistory. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 14:43 | history | asked | Village | CC BY-SA 3.0 |