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Audio long-read: How ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs

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The Future of the Ancient Diet

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.

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