Audio long-read: How ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs
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Evidence of Bread Baking at a Neolithic Site in Turkey
Archaeologists find charred crusts at neoliic sites in austria dating back more than five thousand years. Evidence provides crucial clues to the origins of the neolific revo ten, when people began to settle down and domesticate grain and animals. A loaf of bread would have been a luxury product that required time consuming and tedious work gathering the wild grain needed for baking.
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