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
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
Neanderthals at two nearby caves, Amud and Kebara (Israel), butchered the same prey in different ways, suggesting local food traditions
Skull lesions in ancient forager-farmers likely indicate compromised immune systems, not infant-onset anemia; the study is published in Science Advances
