Archaeologists put on their lab coats analyzed pottery from Neolithic sites to illuminate ancient culinary practices
What Bronze Age teeth say about the evolution of the human diet: scientists extract microbiomes from two 4,000 year old teeth at Killuragh Cave
Homo sapiens already reached northwest Europe more than 45,000 years ago and lived alongside Neanderthals, according to three new studies
New research challenges hunter-gatherer narrative: in the Andes, between 9,000 and 6,500 years ago, diet was composed of 80 percent plant matter and meat played a secondary role
What did people eat in Mesolithic Scandinavia? A new study of the DNA in a chewing gum shows that deer, trout and hazelnuts were on the diet
Reading genetic information of ancient Teotihuacans; Teotihuacan was one of the largest metropolitan centers in ancient Mesoamerica in the pre-Columbian era
In Moravia, ravens were attracted to humans’ food more than 30,000 years ago, according to a new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution
New insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including wheat, were cooked in pots
The transition to dairy farming and horse husbandry may have fueled the rise of complex societies in Bronze Age Mongolia
Ancient skeletons reveal the history of worm parasites in Britain; a new study published on PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases