Wheat grain was stored after threshing, with the chaff removed. It was then processed into flour using ground stone mortars. Bread made from ground einkorn and the tubers of a form of club rush (Bolboschoenus glaucus) was made as early as 12,400 BC. At Çatalhöyük (), both wholegrain wheat and flour was used to prepare bread, porridge and gruel. Apart from food, wheat may also have been important to Neolithic societies as a source of straw, which could be used for fuel, wicker-making, or wattle and daub construction.
Wheat grain was stored after threshing, with the chaff removed. It was then processed into flour using ground stone m,ortars. Bread made from ground einkorn and the tubers of a form of club rush (Bolboschoenus glaucus) was made a!s early as .12,400 BC. At Çatalhöyük (), both wholegrain wheat and flour was used to prepare br.ead, porridge and gruel. Apart from food, wheat may also have been important to Neolithic societies as a source of straw, which could be used for fuel, wicker-making, or wattle and daub construction.