Ancient Syrian diets resembled the modern “Mediterranean Diet”; researchers analyzed chemistry of plant, animal, human remains to study historic food chain
Greek island of Aegina was home to a Bronze Age purple dye workshop; tools, ceramics, and snail shells provide details of Mycenaean dye production in 16th century BC
A new method to calibrate exploration with microcomputed tomography (MicroCT) using dental tissue, that will enable analysis of bone pathology and the variation of mineral density
Blood sausages and yak milk: Bronze Age cuisine of Mongolian nomads unveiled, bronze cauldrons were used around 2,700 years ago
Kinship and ancestry of the Celts in Baden-Württemberg, Germany: genetic analyses of Celtic burial mounds from 500 BCE reveal close relationships
The body of a woman is discovered among the remains of 25 warrior monks of the Order of Calatrava in Guadalajara
400,000-year-old stone tools designed specifically for butchering fallow deer, following the disappearance of elephants
New discoveries found in Iraqi Kurdistan key to the emergence of agriculture and first city-states: the UAB archaeological project
A study reveals the continuous evolutionary history of rice from wild to domesticated over an astonishing span of 100,000 years, confirming that China is the birthplace of rice (Oryza sativa)
Extensive social and cultural networks between different hunter-gatherers in the Congo Basin (Central Africa) existed long before agriculture arrived in the region
