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A 6,500-Year-Old Fire May Have Preserved Clues to Europe’s Earliest Beer
A fire that destroyed a prehistoric house in Bulgaria around 6,500 years ago may have preserved evidence of one of Europe’s earliest beer-making traditions. Archaeologists working at Provadia-Solnitsata found charred emmer wheat inside a Late Chalcolithic building dating to around 4500 BC. What made the grains unusual was not simply their survival. Many had begun…