A taste for wild cereal sowed farming’s spread in ancient Europe
Balkan hunter-gatherers ate starchy grains several millennia before they cultivated crops
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Food deposits on the teeth (one shown) of ancient people who inhabited what’s now Serbia and Romania contributed to new evidence that hunter-gatherers ate wild cereals for several thousand years before crop cultivation reached Europe.
Emanuela Cristiani