the team found traces of starch consistent with a very thick wheat-and-barley-based alcohol. Some scholars would like more evidence that beer and not bread was being made in that specific cave ...

He has identified the world’s oldest known barley beer (from Iran’s Zagros ... In what might be called the “beer before bread” hypothesis, the desire for drink may have prompted the ...

“They had bread and barley porridge, plus maybe some meat at feasts. Nutrition was very bad,” she says. “But as soon as you have beer, you have everything you need to develop really wel ...