# Capture — world’s first bakers

- **Claim filed:** “Aboriginal people were the world’s first bakers and they invented bread.”
- **Who:** Bruce Pascoe, restated by ABC Education
- **URL:** https://www.abc.net.au/education/digibooks/bruce-pascoe-aboriginal-agriculture-technology-and-ingenuity/101734320
- **Date on page:** published 2022-12-06 (digibook); Pascoe’s “invented bread” line is older (2018 talks)
- **Publisher:** ABC Education
- **Captured:** 2026-08-16
- **Method:** same ABC Education and Conversation captures as `evidence/2014/not-hunter-gatherers/` (`abc-education.html`, `conversation-sutton-2021.html`). Not copied twice.

## Verbatim (ABC Education)

> Bruce Pascoe states that Aboriginal people were the world's first bakers and that they invented bread.

> Archaeologists have recently found evidence that Indigenous Australians were producing flour 65,000 years ago. Were they the world's first bakers?

Pascoe, ABC regional promotion (same slogan, his voice): “I come from the country that invented bread. And that’s Australia.”

## The other meter

`conversation-sutton-2021.html` — Sutton & Walshe via Christine Nicholls

> implements… not for “tilling” or “ploughing” the soil in preparation for planting seeds.

> Sutton and Walshe portray classical Australian Aboriginal people as highly successful hunter-gatherers and fishers.

Grindstones and seed-processing are in the Australian archaeological record. “Invented bread” / “world’s first bakers” is the leap the classroom page repeats.

## What this file does not do

It does not file “Cuddie Springs is a hoax.” It files “invented bread” as a government-classroom slogan against the difference between a grindstone and a crop.