March 18, 2019

Eat This Podcast: Prehistoric food globalisation

Hello

A new research paper offers a more comprehensive – and more nuanced – view of where agriculture began and how it spread from small, localised centres of domestication to cover much of the Old World. Crops were moving much further much earlier, and as they did so early farmers grew the confidence, the resources and the knowledge to move up into the mountains and down into the river basins.

Professor Martin Jones at the University of Cambridge has spent his working life studying the archaeology of crop plants. We talked about this more detailed picture and the evidence that supports it.

Take a listen.

All the best

Jeremy