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

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🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

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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Welcome to this audio long read from nature.

1:08.9

In this episode, how ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs, written

1:14.4

by Andrew Curry and read by me, Nick Petra Chow.

1:21.7

On a clear day, the view from the ruins of Gaubeckli-Telpe stretches across southern Turkey, all the way to the Syrian border some 50 kilometres away.

1:32.9

At 11,600 years old, this mountaintop archaeological site has been described as the world's oldest temple.

1:42.7

So ancient, in fact, that its tea-shaped pillars and circular enclosures

1:47.7

predate pottery in the Middle East. The people who built these monumental structures were living

1:54.7

just before a major transition in human history, the Neolithic Revolution, when humans began farming and domesticating

2:03.3

crops and animals. But there are no signs of domesticated grain at Gaubeckli-Tepa, suggesting

2:10.0

that its residents hadn't yet made the leap to farming. The ample animal bones found in the ruins

2:16.6

proved that the people living there were accomplished hunters, and there are signs of massive feasts.

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