Cooking a Burnt Meal

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Sultana valamoti is an archi botanist at the aristotle institute of thessalonici in greece. She ground and boiled wheat to make bulga, and then charred it in an oven to simulate a long ago cooking accident. By comparing the burnt remains to four thousand year old samples from a site in northern greece, she was able to show that this way of preparing grain had its roots in the bronze age.

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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