The article below makes the assertion that the Chinese created Pasta, (not merely Noodles, but PASTA), not Italians, which is less credible than stating that Chinese created the Matzo, although more logical. 

Although the Archeologists realize that the Stone Age Chinese Noodles were made of Millet, which is one of the few grains that are Non Glutinous, and are miles different from Wheat Duram Semolina from which Italian Pasta is primarily made. The archeologists do note that this is a semi arid region, that could support grass like Millet, but not Rice, prevalent throughout the rest of China, and also noted that this entire region of this noodle was destroyed by an earthquake and floods, and that that Millet Noodle died out with the Region, and therefore could not have "introduced" the "pasta" to the world. 

On the other hand, the Millet made its way from China to the Black Sea region of the Mideast by 5000 BC, and being Non Glutinous, and non Leavening, Millet would have been the most probable of all ingredients for Matzos. In fact, in most Sephardic communities.Jews traditionally made a form of soft matza, that looks similar to pita while in others it can resemble a tortilla. 

A noodle is a type of food made from unleavened dough made from many types of ingredients, in an abundance of shapes and sizes.that is cooked in a boiling liquid. The word derives from the German Nudel  (noodle) and may be related to the Latin word nodus  (knot). In American English, noodles is a generic term for unleavened dough 
The Noodle in every place other than 
The millets are a group of small-seeded species of cereal crops or grains, widely grown around the world for food and fodder.  Their essential similarities are that they are small-seeded grasses grown in difficult production environments such as those at risk of drought. They have been in cultivation in East Asia for the last 10,000 years.The cultivation of millets was of greater prevalence in prehistory than rice, especially in northern China and Korea. Millets contain no gluten, so they are not suitable for raised bread. Alone, they are suited for flatbread. Millets therefore are VERY unlike wheat, oats, barley, rye, maize, buckwheat, etc. 
Pasta (Italian pasta, from Latin pasta "dough, pastry cake", from Greek past (pasta) "barley porridge") is a generic term for foods made from an unleavened dough of wheat or buckwheat flour and water, sometimes with other ingredients such as eggs and vegetablenoodles in various lengths, widths and shapes, and varieties that are filled with other ingredients like ravioli and tortellini. The word pasta is also used to refer to dishes in which pasta products are a primary ingredient. It is usually served with sauce. extracts. Pastas include 
There are more than 350 different shapes of Pasta with at least locally recognized names.Examples include spaghetti (thin rods), macaroni (tubes or cylinders), fusilli   (swirls), and lasagne  (sheets). Two other noodles, gnocchi  and spätzle  are sometimes considered pasta. They are both traditional in parts of Italy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta
http://www.archimedes-lab.org/pastashape.html

THE first known bowl of pasta was filled not with Italian spaghetti but with Chinese noodles, archaeologists have discovered. A dish filled with beautifully preserved yellow noodles from 4,000 years ago has been unearthed at a dig near the Yellow River in northwestern China, settling a long-running dispute about who invented it. 
The noodles from the Lajia archaeological site, which are about 50cm (20in) long and 3mm (.1 inch) in diameter, appear similar in style to a traditional variety called La-Mian, which are still popular in China. 
Like La-Mian noodles, they appear to have been made by stretching dough by hand, though the ancient dough was made from millet flour and not the wheat, barley or rice that are used today. 
The find, details of which are published today in the journal Nature, proves that the Chinese were shaping flour into noodles and boiling them for the plate at least 2,000 years before the practice first emerged in Italy. 
The origins of Italian pasta remain uncertain, with various theories attributing the first recipes to the Etruscans, Romans and Arab traders. 
An Etruscan tomb from the fourth century BC, just north of Rome, has a mural showing servants mixing flour with water, along with a rolling pin and shape cutters. The Etruscans and Romans, however, are generally thought to have baked rather than boiled dough shapes, which would have had more in common with pizza than pasta. 
Boiled pasta is more likely to have reached Italy from the Arab world between the 5th and 8th centuries. The popular belief that it was brought back from China by Marco Polo, however, is a myth: a document from 1279 shows that Genoese soldiers carried pasta among their provisions, 16 years before the explorer returned from the Orient. 
The ancient Chinese noodles were found during a dig at the Lajia site which holds the remains of a Stone Age settlement. The village appears to have been destroyed by an earthquake and floods about 4,000 years ago and is now buried beneath a layer of sediment 3m (10ft) thick. 
A research team led by Houyuan Li, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, discovered a sealed earthenware bowl embedded upside down in clay which, when opened, turned out to be full of noodles. 
“When we lifted off the bowl, the remains of the noodles were found inside," Dr Li said. "The noodles were thin " about 3mm in diameter " delicate, more than 50cm in length and yellow in colour. They resemble the La-Mian noodle, a traditional Chinese noodle that is made by repeatedly pulling and stretching the dough." 
To identify the plants from which the noodle flour was made, the team compared the starch grains in the bowl containing the noodles with modern crops. 
This revealed that the pasta was made from millet grass. "Unlike modern Italian pasta and Asian noodles, which are generally made from durum wheat and bread wheat respectively, the prehistoric noodles show no evidence that wheat, barley or other non-grass plants were used to supply their ingredients" the researchers said. 
“Our findings support the belief that early plant domestication and food production relied on millet crops in the semi-arid Loess Plateau region of China" 
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article577909.ece
 
 

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