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Prehistoric workers dined on takeaway three millennia before Uber Eats

Ancient detritus hints that hungry labourers reached for convenience foods such as pre-hulled barley.
Charred finds of the most important cultivated crops from the Late Bronze Age

Millet grains (top rows) and lentils (bottom) are among the crop remnants found at a prehistoric mining site in the Alps. Credit: A. G. Heiss et al./PLOS ONE (CC BY 4.0)

Some 3,000 years ago, people in farming villages were sending mashed cereal to copper miners in the Alps, suggesting that meal delivery was already a way of life in the Bronze Age.

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Nature 592, 10 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00774-w

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