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Ovens

Hot stones, doomed domes, & floors on fire

Eleanor Konik
Oct 04, 2021
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Photo of the 18th century style Bake Oven recently completed at Wilderness Road State Park's Martin's Station.

One of the major temples in the fantasy culture I'm developing is devoted to food preservation and preparation, so I needed to find out more about ancient ovens. It's a more complicated topic than I thought it would be, honestly.

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  • The oldest archaeological evidence of people using earth ovens for food preparation comes from about 30,000 years a…

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