The Future of the Ancient Diet

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Demand for bread might have been a factor in driving people to attempt to domesticate wheat. Raw greens and vegetables are even harder to find in the archaeological record than cooked seeds and grains. The quest to understand the ancient diets has led some researchers to take extreme measures, such as re-creating tools used to make food not the dishes themselves.

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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