Audio long-read: How ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs
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Early Humans Cooked and Eating Starchy Foods
Plant microfossils trapped and preserved in the hardened place showed that they were cooking and eating starchy foods, including tubers, grains and dates. Early humans probably ate a balance diet, leaning on starchy s for calories when game was scarce or hard to hunt. Evidence suggests that plants were popular among nhe ander foals too.
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