8,000-year-old wheat grains in Georgia show the earliest evidence of breadmaking

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(29 Apr 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Gadachrili Gora, Georgia -17 April 2026 1. Various of archaeologists at work 2. SOUNDBITE (English) David Lordkipanidze, Director of Georgia's National Museum: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1 AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3 TO 5++ "This is a very special place. Here we have 8,000 years of traces of bread wheat, as well as we found here some years ago 8,000 years old traces of wine making. So, we could say for sure that here in Georgia, we discovered