Evidence of Bread Baking at a Neolithic Site in Turkey

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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.

Archaeological evidence shows that ancient people ate carbs, long before domesticated crops.

While the idea that early humans subsisted mainly on meat persists, archaeologists are increasingly understanding that ancient people have actually long been in love with carbs, even before the advent of agriculture.

This is an audio version of our feature: How ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs

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