4,000-year-old teeth record the earliest traces of people chewing psychoactive betel nuts, from Burial 11 at Nong Ratchawat
Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human fossil record
The secrets of rare Iron Age Glenfield Cauldrons have been revealed through archaeological investigation and replica creation
Is this what 2,500-year-old honey from a Greek shrine in Paestum looks like? A study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
Black Death offers window into how childhood malnutrition affects adult health, according to a new study published in Science Advances
Human teeth unearthed at Hualongdong, China, offer fresh insights into hominin diversity in Asia during the late Middle Pleistocene
Neanderthal remains have high nitrogen levels likely because they munched on maggots, according to a new study in Science Advances
A reexamination of ancient human migration routes out of Africa; a study published in the journal Comptes Rendus Géoscience
Culinary traditions were largely unaffected at the time of the dispersal of millet and rice agriculture from Korea to Japan
Teenage diaries from Stalin’s Russia reveal boys’ struggles with love, famine and Soviet pressure to achieve; the study has been published in the journal Slavic Review
