In the News . . .

• Tooth decay bacteria found in 4,000-year-old molars -- BBCNews (27 March 2024)
  
  
• Adoreum: the newly discovered flatbread fresco of Pompeii -- BBCNews (30 June 2032)
  
  
• Pompeii fresco find possibly depicts 2,000-year-old form of pizza -- The Guardian (27 June 2023)
  
  
• Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm -- The Guardian (28 March 2023)
  
  
• ‘Surprisingly tasty’: putting Neanderthal cooking to the test -- The Guardian (26 November 2022)
  
  
• Oldest cooked leftovers ever found suggest Neanderthals were foodies -- The Guardian (36 November 2022)
  
  
• DIY fertiliser may be behind monks’ parasite torment, say archaeologists -- The Guardian (19 August 2022)
  
  
• The sacred 'sisters' of ancient America rem three sisters maize beans squash -- BBCtravel (02 August 2022)
  
  
• Ancient evidence of a favorite breakfast food could help us better understand the present, researchers say -- CNN (14 September 2022)
  
  
• The world's oldest sourdough? -- BBCNews (12 July 2022)
  
  
• Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form -- PHYS ORG (08 August 2022)
  
  
• Inside the effort to save the abalone — a delicious but endangered sea creature -- NPR (29 July 2022)
  
  
• Offshore fish farms: a new wave of food production … or the ‘wild west’ of ocean pollution? -- The Guardian (20 July 2022)
  
  
• In Portugal, Taking a Dive Into Sardines -- The Guardian (13 July 2022)
  
  
• Unsustainable logging, fishing and hunting 'driving extinction' -- BBCNews (08 July 2022)
  
  
• Stonehenge builders ate undercooked offal, ancient faeces reveals -- Guardian (20 May 2022)
  
  
• How looted artifacts impede our understanding of history ​​-- CBC (20 April 2022)
  
  
• Ancient mass migration transformed Britons' DNA [milk; lactose intolerance] -- BBCNews (22 December 2021)
  
  
• Ancient cooking vessel found in Boundary Waters dates back more than 1,600 years -- MPRNews (28 February 2022)
  
  
• Millet bread and pulse dough from Early Iron Age South India -- Phys.org (17 December 2021)
  
  
• Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public -- The Guardian (09 August 2021)
  
  
• ‘It could feed the world’: amaranth, a health trend 8,000 years old that survived colonization [amaranth] -- The Guardian (06 August 2021)
  
  
• Ancient Roman ship laden with wine jars discovered off Sicily -- The Guardian (28 July 2021)
  
  
• The treasure inside beer lost in a shipwreck 120 years ago -- BBCFuture (22 June 2021)
  
  
• Third of French wine lost after rare cold snaps devastate vines -- The Guardian (15 April 2021)
  
  
• The real reason humans are the dominant species -- BBCNews (28 March 2021)
  
  
• Mexico archaeologists reveal tale of cannibalism and reprisal from conquest -- The Guardian (19 January 2021)
  
  
• Pig Painting May Be World’s Oldest Cave Art Yet, Archaeologists Say -- The New York Times (13 January 2021)
  
  
• How early humans' quest for food stoked the flames of evolution -- The Guardian (07 March 2021)
  
  
  • Dunn, Robb, and Monica Sanchez. 2021. Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
    
    
• Exceptionally well-preserved snack bar unearthed in Pompeii -- The Guardian (26 December 2020)
  
  
• Millennia-Old Cookware May Be the Key to Recreating Ancient Cuisine -- The Smithsonian Magazine (23 September 2020)
  
  
  • Miller, M.J., Whelton, H.L., Swift, J.A. et al. Interpreting ancient food practices: stable isotope and molecular analyses of visible and absorbed residues from a year-long cooking experiment. Sci Rep 10, 13704 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70109-8
    
    
• Aided by Modern Ingenuity, a Taste of Ancient Judean Dates -- The New York Times (07 September 2020)
  
  
• A 3100-year-old bowl of soup found next to a dead body – and it's still LIQUID -- Archaeology World (16 August 2020)
  
  
• Europe's earliest bone tools found in Britain [Boxgrove] -- BBCNews (12 August 2020)
  
  
• Ancient Butter Dish Found in Scottish Lake Still Held Butter -- AncientOrigins (24 July 2020)
  
  
• Archaeologists date earliest known occupation of North America -- Phys.Org (16 July 2020)
  
  
• Archaeology news: How 9,000-year teeth tell us sugary foods and cavities go hand in hand -- EXPRESS (07 July 2020)
  
  
• Pompeii ruins show that the Romans invented recycling -- The Guardian (26 April 2020)
  
  
• Revolutionary new method for dating pottery sheds new light on prehistoric past -- Phys.Org (08 April 2020)
  
  
• Scientists in Israel grow date plants from 2,000-year-old seeds -- The Guardian (05 February 2020)
  
  
• New Papua New Guinea research solves archaeological mysteries -- Phys.Org (04 June 2020)
  
  
• Which foods will survive the apocalypse? -- BBCfuture (31 March 2020)
  
  
• Ancient Sippy Cups Could Help Explain a Prehistoric Baby Boom -- WIRED (05 October 2019)
  
  
• Scientists Find Early Evidence of Humans Cooking Starches -- Scientific American (22 June 2019)
  
  
• Pompeii ‘fast food’ bar unearthed in ancient city after 2,000 years -- The Guardian (27 March 2019)
  
  
• Archaeologists discover 'first beer ever brewed in the UK' -- Sky News (31 January 2019)
  
  
• Colonialism and Domestic Life: Identities and Foodways in Huarochirí During the Inka Empire -- International Journal of Archaeology (03 January 2019)
  
  
• Hernandez Garavito C., Hernandez Garavito C., Osores Mendives C., and Osores Mendives C. 2019. "Colonialism and Domestic Life: Identities and Foodways in Huarochirí During the Inka Empire". International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 23 (4): 832-867. Accessed 17 April 2021. https://www.academia.edu/38140738/Colonialism_and_Domestic_Life_Identities_and_Foodways_in_Huarochir%C3%AD_During_the_Inka_Empire
  
  
• 'World's oldest brewery' found in cave in Israel, say researchers -- BBCNews (15 September 2018)
  
  
• Archaeologists find earliest evidence of bread [Jordan] -- The Guardian (16 July 2018)
  
  
• video: Secrets of the Stone Age, (2/2 85 min., 2017, Top Documentary Films)
  
  
• Anthony Taylor, Jarod M. Hutson, Vaughn M. Bryant & Dennis L. Jenkins (2019) Dietary items in Early to Late Holocene human coprolites from Paisley Caves, Oregon, USA, Palynology, DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2018.1530699
  
  
• Hidden history of prehistoric women's work revealed -- BBCNews (29 November 2017)
  
  
• Origin and dispersal of early domestic pigs in northern China -- Scientific Reports, Nature (10 August 2017)
  
  
• Pigs Among First Domesticated Animals -- AgHires (04 August 2017)
  
  
• What Ancient Mummies Tell Us About What to Eat, Lithuanian Mummies Offer New Insight into Health and Disease, Including the History of Smallpox, The Scout Report, Volume 23, Number 23, 9 June 2017
  
  
• Lithuanian Mummies Offer New Insight into Health and Disease, Including the History of Smallpox,
  The Scout Report, Volume 23, Number 23, 9 June 2017
  
  
• Ungar, Peter. The “True” Human Diet: From the standpoint of paleoecology, the so-called Paleo diet is a myth -- Scientific American (27 April 2017)
  
  
• A change in diet may have helped our brains get so big -- BBCearth (27 March 2017)
  
  
• The secret behind Iran’s fabled wine [Shiraz] -- BBCTravel (18 March 2017)
  
  
• Insights into early pig domestication provided by ancient DNA analysis -- Scientific Reports, US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (16 March 2017)
  
  
• Ancient Dental Plaque Provides a Glimpse into Early Medicine and the Original Paleolithic Diet -- The Scout Report, Volume 23, Number 10, 10 March 2017
  
  ["The Paleo Diet, popularized by Loren Cordain in a 2002 book of the same title, purports to help people lose weight by encouraging them to imitate the diet of Paleolithic humans. How well does this diet actually resemble what our prehistoric ancestors ate? An international team of researchers, led by the University of Adelaide's Center for Ancient DNA, has recently uncovered new insights into that question through a surprising source: Neanderthal dental plaque. The team examined the plaque of five Neanderthals skulls, ranging in age from 42,000 to 50,000 years old, found at two different cave sites: Spy in Belgium and El Sidron in Spain. Microbiologist Laura Weyrich, the study's lead author, explained, 'Dental plaque traps microorganisms that lived in the mouth and pathogens found in the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract, as well as bits of food stuck in the teeth - preserving the DNA for thousands of years.' By sequencing and examining this DNA, the research team inferred that Neanderthal diets likely varied widely by region. While Spy Cave Neanderthals ate meat (likely from wild rhinos and sheep), those in El Sidron had a vegetarian diet consisting of pine nuts, mushrooms, and tree bark. In short, as Dr. Weyrich puts it, 'The true paleo diet is eating whatever's out there in the environment.'" -- MMB, The Scout Report, Volume 23, Number 10, 10 March 2017.]
  
  
• Neanderthal Dental Plaque Shows What a Paleo Diet Really Looks Like -- The Atlantic (08 March 2017)
  
  
• Does Shiraz wine come from Iran? -- BBCNews (03 February 2017)
  
  
• Animal Domestication -- Table of Dates and Places -- K. Kris Hirst, ThoughtCo (28 January 2017)
  
  
• Archaeological Find Puts Humans in North America 10,000 Years Earlier Than Thought -- Hakai Magazine (13 January 2017)
  
  
• World's oldest fish hooks found in Japanese island cave -- BBCNews (18 September 2016)
  
  
• Fish were more prominent in early Alaskans' diets, isotope study determines -- ScienceDaily (29 August 2016)
  
  
• Oyster Archaeology: Ancient Trash Holds Clues To Sustainable Harvesting -- NPR (28 July 2016)
  
  
• Laying Bare the Bones of Ancient Maya Society -- Scientific American (16 July 2016)
  
  
• The people who ate elephant heads -- BBCearth (22 June 2016)
  
  
• Ancient Europeans May Have Been First Wine Makers -- Science News (24 June 2016)
  
  
• Canaanites Sacrificed Animals From Egypt 5,000 Years Ago, Archaeologists Find -- Haaretz (21 June 2016)
  
  
• How squash agriculture spread bees in pre-Columbian North America -- Heritage Daily (21 June 2016)
  
  
• 10kgs of 2,000-year-old butter found in a bog in Ireland to go on display -- BBCfuture (15 June 2016)
  
  
• Livestock Pens Approximately 5,000 Years Old in Álava, Spain -- ScienceDaily (08 June 2016)
  
  
• Secrets of the world's oldest funeral feast -- BBCearth (24 May 2016)
  
  
• When It Came To Food, Neanderthals Weren't Exactly Picky Eaters -- NPR (29 April 2016)
  
  Neandertal versus Modern Human Dietary Responses to Climatic Fluctuations -- PLoS ONE (27 April 2016)
  
  
• Neanderthal Table Manners: They Used Toothpicks, Too -- LiveScience (14 April 2016)
  
  
• Scientists Seek to Resurrect the Aurochs, the Extinct Beast That Inspired Cave Paintings -- Washington Post (04 April 2016)
  
  
• Early human habitat, recreated for first time, shows life was no picnic -- ScienceDaily (10 March 2016)
  
  
• Ancient Roman Tavern Found Littered with Patrons' Drinking Bowls -- LiveScience (09 March 2016)
  
  
  • Photos: Ancient Roman Tavern Served Wine, Fish and Flatbread -- LiveScience (09 March 2016)
    
    
• Plant Biomarker Evidence of Ancestral Human Lifestyle -- Phys.org (03 March 2016)
  
  
• For the First Time in Excavations of Ancient Near Eastern Sites: Winery Found in Canaanite Palace -- ScienceDaily (03 March 2016)
  
  
• Tracing European farmers back to Anatolia -- Past Horizons (05 January 2016)
  
  
• Earth's Largest Ever Ape Died Out Because It Refused to Eat Its Greens – Guardian (04 January 2016)
  
  
• 2,700-Year-Old Farmhouse Unearthed in Israel -- LiveScience (04 January 2016)
  • Photos: Ancient Farmhouse and Church Uncovered in Israel -- LiveScience (05 January 2016)
    
    
• Party Like It's 2500 B.C.: Feasts at Stonehenge Were Epic Barbecues -- NPR (09 December 2015)
  
  
• The First Inter-Cultural ‘Party’ in Europe? -- Past Horizons (06 December 2015)
  
  
• Oldest Peach Pits Found in China -- Discovery (01 December 2015)
  
  
• Early Neolithic Feasting Rituals -- Past Horizons (28 October 2015)
  
  
• Stonehenge builders had barbecue feasts at nearby party centre -- New Scientist (14 October 2015)
  
  
• Feasts and food choices: Culinary habits of the Stonehenge builders -- ScienceDaily (13 October 2015)
  
  
• The culinary habits of the Stonehenge builders -- Phys.org (13 October 2015)
  
  
• What the Stonehenge builders ate -- Past Horizons (13 October 2015)
  
  
• Study: Eurasian Farmers Migrated to Africa 3,000 Years Ago -- New York Times (08 October 2015)
  
  
• 1,000 Years Ago, Caffeinated Drinks Had Native Americans Buzzing -- NPR (08 September 2015)
  
  
• Early human diet explains our eating habits -- Phys.org (31 August 2015)
  
  
• The 5,000-Year Secret History of the Watermelon -- National Geographic (21 August 2015)
  
  
• First Scandinavian Farmers Were Far More Advanced Than We Thought -- ScienceNordic (17 August 2015)
  
  
• Bone Marks Reveal Our Ancestors Were Eating Meat 3.4 Million Years Ago -- Forbes (14 August 2015)
  
  
• Marks on 3.4-million-year-old bones not due to trampling, analysis confirms -- ScienceDaily (13 August 2015)
  
  
• Ancient Storage Jar Discovered Under Roman Road -- Phys.org (27 July 2015)
  
  
• Research Shows How Spanish Colonists Changed Life in the Middle Rio Grande Valley -- Phys.org (26 June 2015)
  
  
• Bronze Age Humans' Diet and Arrival of New Crops in Iberian Peninsula -- ScienceDaily (26 June 2015)
  
  
• Archaeologists Find Bronze Age Food at Prehistoric Settlement "Comparable to the Mary Rose" -- Culture 24 (25 June 2015)
  
  
• Prehistoric Pig Bones Show Selective Feasting Patterns -- Past Horizons (18 June 2015)
  
  
• “Globally unparalleled” evidence of prehistoric Welsh feasting practices unearthed by archaeologists -- Cardiff University (11 June 2015)
  
  
• Why did modern humans hunt and eat rabbit while Neanderthals didn’t? -- Past Horizons (10 June 2015)
  
  
• What Rabbits Can Tell Us About Neanderthal Extinction -- ScienceDaily (08 June 2015)
  
  
• DNA Carries Traces of Past Events Meaning Poor Lifestyle Can Affect Future Generations -- Telegraph (04 June 2015)
  
  
• How Past Native-American Settlement Modified Western New York Forests -- ScienceDaily (02 June 2015)
  
  
• Ancient Human Migration Route Marked by Snail Shell "Bread Crumbs" -- Scientific American (06 June 2015)
  
  
• Ancient DNA sheds light on how past environments affected ancient populations -- ScienceDaily (28 May 2015)
  
  
• Japan's Oldest Basil Pollen Found in Nara Ruins May Have Been 'Medicine' from China -- Asahi Shimbun (14 May 2015)
  
  
• Neanderthal Chefs May Have Spiced Up Menus with Wild Herbs -- New Scientist (15 April 2015)
  
  
• Ornaments Reveal Resistance of North European Cultures to the Spread of Farming -- PLoS ONE (08 April 2015)
  
  
• Real Paleo, Kennewick Man, Ate Mostly Seafood -- Discovery News (03 April 2015)
  
  
• Heated Dining Rooms and Butchery: The Robbed Roman Villa Found by Archaeologists in Yorkshire -- Culture 24 (03 April 2015)
  
  
• Deserted Field Systems of the Atacama -- Past Horizons (26 March 2015)
  
  
• Ancient Bacteria Found in Hunter-Gatherer Guts -- Science (25 March 2015)
  
  
• Study of Hunter-Gatherers' Guts Reveals Ancient Microbes -- National Geographic News (25 March 2015)
  
  
• You Can Thank the Ancient Maya for Your Grocery Store’s Papaya -- Smithsonian (19 March 2015)
  
  
• Cultivated Papaya Owes a Lot to the Ancient Maya, Research Suggests -- ScienceDaily (17 March 2015)
  
  
• Cultivated papaya owes a lot to the ancient Maya, research suggests -- Phys.org (17 March 2015)
  
  
• Humans adapted to rain forests earlier than previously thought -- Past Horizons (13 March 2015)
  
  
• Humans adapted to living in rainforests much sooner than thought -- ScienceDaily (12 March 2015)
  
  
• Penguins Rapidly Conquered New Zealand After Humans Ate Rivals -- LiveScience (03 March 2015)
  
  
• South American Mummies Once Snacked on Corn and Seafood -- LiveScience (23 February 2015)
  
  
  • Photos: Mummy Hair Reveals Ancient Last Meals -- LiveScience (23 February 2015)
    
    
• Barley and Wheat Residues in Neolithic Cemeteries of Central Sudan and Nubia -- LiveScience (09 February 2015)
  
  
• Microbotanical Evidence of Domestic Cereals in Africa 7000 Years Ago -- PLoS ONE (22 October 2014)
  
  
• How Modern Humans Ate Their Way to World Dominance -- Science (06 February 2015)
  
  
• Fish Could Be Key to Innovation of Pottery by Hunter Gatherer Societies -- Past Horizons (03 February 2015)
  
  
• Fishy cooking habits of North American hunter-gatherers revealed -- Science Daily (03 February 2015)
  
  
• Dogs, Wild Cats, Foxes and Badgers Were Eaten at El Mirador Cave -- Past Horizons (25 January 2015)
  
  
• Between 7,200 and 3,100 Years Ago Humans from Atapuerca Ate Domestic Dog, Wild Cat, Fox and Badger -- Campus of Interntional Excellence, Southern Catalonia (19 January 2015)
  
  
• From Campfire to Haute Cuisine: How Food and Flavor Drove Human Evolution -- National Geographic News (18 January 2015)
  
  
• Different Tastes: How Our Human Ancestors' Diets Evolved -- LiveScience (16 January 2015)
  
  
• Alcohol Archaeology: I Recreate Beverages with Heritage -- New Scientist (31 December 2014)
  
  
• Ancient Farmhouse Found in Israel Reveals Agricultural Secrets -- LiveScience (17 December 2014)
  
  
• Intensive Agriculture May Have Exacerbated Drought in Aancient Maya City -- Phys.org (16 December 2014)
  
  
• Dental Plaque Reveals Key Plant in Prehistoric Easter Island Diet -- Science Daily (2014-12-15
  
  
• DNA from parchment helps trace agricultural development across the centuries -- Past Horizons (08 December 2014)
  
  
• Viking Feasting Hall Identified by Ground Penetrating Radar -- Past Horizons (08 December 2014)
  
  
• Work on Rome Subway Digs up Ancient Farm, Tools -- ABC News (03 December 2014)
  
  
• Giant Ancient Roman Water Basin Uncovered -- Discovery News (2014-12-04)
  
  
  • Ancient Water Basin Found in Rome: Photos -- Discovery News (2014-12-04)
    
    
• What Did Ancient Egyptians Really Eat? -- Inside Science (08 May 2014)
  
  
• Hot Stew in the Ice Age? Evidence Shows Neanderthals Boiled Food -- National Geographic News (30 April 2014)
  
  
• Fecal Fossils Reveal Much About the Original Paleo Diet -- The Scout Report, June 27, 2014 -- Volume 20,
  
  
• Lumps of Oldest Cheese Found on Mummies Necks, Chests -- Discovery News (27 February 2014)
  
  
• Ancient Herring Catch Nets Fisheries Weakness -- EurekAlert (17 February 2014)
  
  
• Archaeologists lend long-term perspective to food security and climate shock -- ScienceDaily (16 February 2014)
  
  
• From surf to turf: Archaeologists and chemists trace ancient British diets -- ScienceDaily (12 February 2014)
  
  
• Between Religion and Consumption: Culinary and Drinking Equipment in Venetic Ritual Practice -- Elisa Perego, Academia.edu (30 November 2011)
  
  
• A Hot Time in the Old Archaeological Dig Tonight -- Pacific Standard (21 November 2013)
  
  
• Meat Mummies: How Ancient Egyptians Prepared Feasts for Afterlife -- NPR (18 November 2013)
  
  
• Organic chemistry of balms used in the preparation of pharaonic meat mummies -- Katherine A. Clark, Salima Ikram, and Richard P. Evershed, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 18 November 2013
  
  
• 'Meat Mummies' Kept Egyptian Royalty Well-Fed After Death -- LiveScience (18 November 2013)
  
  
• Prehispanic Use of Chili Peppers in Chiapas, Mexico -- PLoS ONE (13 November 2013)
  
  
• New World's Oldest Tomatillo Discovered -- LiveScience (20 September 2013)
  
  
• Is This the Stomach-Turning Truth About What the Neanderthals Ate? -- Guardian (19 October 2013)
  
  
• Frogs' Legs May Have Been English Delicacy 8,000 Years Before France -- Guardian (15 October 2013)
  
  
• How a Bowl of Porridge Transformed Mankind -- Telegraph (28 June 2013)
  
  
• Evidence of 2000-Year-Old Famine Found in Jerusalem -- Discovery News (28 June 2013)
  
  
• Grass: It's What's For Dinner (3.5 Million Years Ago) -- NPR (05 June 2013)
  
  
• Dietary changes accompanied human evolution -- ScienceNews (03 June 2013)
  
  
• Neanderthals: Extinction by BBQ? -- Discovery News (22 May 2013)
  
  
• From Neanderthal Molar, Scientists Infer Early Weaning -- The New York Times (22 May 2013)
  
  
• Scientific Tooth Fairies Investigate Neanderthal Breast-Feeding -- NPR (22 May 2013)
  
  
• Infant Tooth Reveals Neanderthal Breastfeeding Habits -- Nature (22 May 2013)
  
  
• Light Cast On Lifestyle and Diet of First New Zealanders -- ScienceDaily (16 May 2013)
  
  
• In Ancient China, Sago Palms Were Major Plant Food Prior to Rice Cultivation -- Science Daily (08 May 2013)
  
  
• Sago-Type Palms Were an Important Plant Food Prior to Rice in Southern Subtropical China -- PLoS ONE (08 May 2013)
  
  
• Searching for Fertiliser Use in the Neolithic -- Past Horizons (26 April 2013)
  
  
• New Excavations in Sweden Indicate Use of Fertilizers 5,000 Years Ago -- ScienceDaily (26 April 2013)
  
  
• 'Workers Town' Fed 10,000 Giza Pyramid Builders -- Discovery News (24 April 2013)
  
  
• Giza Secret Revealed: How 10,000 Pyramid Builders Got Fed -- LiveScience (23 April 2013)
  • Image Gallery: Glitzy Discovery at Giza Pyramids-- LiveScience (23 April 2013)
    
    
• Volcanic Burial Ground Allows Detailed Insight Into Maya Crops -- Past Horizons (03 April 2013)
  
  
• Research Examines Ancient Puebloans and the Myth of Maize -- ScienceDaily (02 April 2013)
  
  
• Bodies in Aswan Tomb Reveal Premature Deaths -- Past Horizons (06 March 2013)
  
  
• What Killed Neanderthals? Scientists Blame Those Rascally Rabbits -- NBC News (06 March 2013)
  
  
• Death and Diet: Peru’s Sacrificial Victims -- Past Horizons (04 March 2013)
  
  
• Most Ancient Romans Ate Like Animals -- LiveScience (01 March 2013)
  
  
• How Beer Gave Us Civilization -- JEFFREY P. KAHN, The New York Times (15 March 2013)
  
  
• Hayden, Brian, Neil Canuel, and Jennifer Shanse. What Was Brewing in the Natufian? An Archaeological Assessment of Brewing Technology in the Epipaleolithic, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, March 2013, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp 102-150.
  
  
• Ancient Teeth Bacteria Record Disease Evolution -- ScienceDaily (17 February 2013)
  
  
• Misguided Nostalgia for Our Paleo Past -- Marlene Zuk, The Chronicle Review (18 February 2012)
  
  
• Stone Age Stew? Soup Making May Be Older Than We'd Thought -- NPR (06 February 2013)
  
  
• Research Looks At Starchy Diet -- NPR (24 January 2013)
  
  
• Dog evolved 'on the waste dump' -- BBC News (23 January 2013)
  
  
• Clues to Prehistoric Human Exploration Found in Sweet Potato Genome -- Science (21 January 2013)
  
  
• How The Sweet Potato Crossed The Pacific Way Before The Europeans Did -- NPR (23 January 2013)
  
  
• Mesolithic People Adapted Their Environment in Severn Estuary -- Past Horizons (14 January 2013)
  
  
• Heap of Cattle Bones May Mark Ancient Feasts -- Discovery News (09 January 2013)
  
  
• Stone Age Hunters Liked Their Carbs -- ScienceNordic (14 January 2013)
  
  
• 2000-year-old food supplements found in Tuscan shipwreck -- Shane Starling, NUTRAingredients.com (8 January 2012)
  
  
• Archaeologists Find Ancient Evidence Of Cheese-Making -- NPR (13 December 2012)
  
  
• How humans have made cheese for more than 8,000 years -- Telegraph (13 December 2012)
  
  
• Evidence of World's 'Oldest' Cheese-Making Found -- BBC News (12 December 2012)
  
  
• Iron Age Feast Found in England -- Discovery News (12 December 2012)
  
  
• Cooking With Clay the Mayan Way -- Past Horizons (10 December 2012)
  
  
• Mayans Cooked Food With Clay Balls -- Discovery News (29 November 2012)
  
  
• Greenland's Viking Settlers Gorged On Seals -- ScienceDaily (19 November 2012)
  
  
• Mayan Bones Reveal Painful End -- Discovery News (14 November 2012)
  
  
• Adventurous Eating Helped Human Ancestors Boost Odds Of Survival -- NPR (13 November 2012)
  
  
• Early Human Ancestors Ate Grass -- Discovery News (12 November 2012)
  
  
• Anglo-Saxon Feasting Hall Discovered in Kent -- Past Horizons (02 November 2012)
  
  
• Caveman Diet Secret: Less Red Meat, More Plants -- LiveScience (24 October 2012)
  
  
• Ancient piece of fabric from surprising source -- ScienceNordic (02 October 2012)
  
  
• Austrian nettle fabric tells of Bronze Age trade -- Past Horizons (29 September 2012)
  
  
• Analysis of 'Black Drink' Residue in Prehistoric Native American Ceramic Vessels -- ScienceDaily (06 September 2012)
  
  
• Early Human Ancestors Had More Variable Diet -- ScienceDaily (08 August 2012)
  
  
• Near-Intact Roman Ship Holds Jars of Food -- DiscoveryNews (08 August 2012)
  
  
• Book Promotes ‘Paleo’ Eating Plan Based on Diets Before Processed Foods -- Washington Post (06 August 2012)
  
  
• Ancient Poop Gives Clues to Diabetes Epidemic -- DiscoveryNews (25 July 2012)
  
  
• Feces Fossils Show Connection Between Native-Americans, Diabetes: Did Fat-Hoarding Genes Develop from the Nature of Ancient Feasts? -- ScienceDaily (24 July 2012)
  
  
• An Olive Stone from 150BC Links Pre-Roman Britain to Today's Pizzeria -- Guardian (19 July 2012)
  
  
• Neanderthals Self-Medicated? -- National Geographic News (20 July 2012)
  
  
• Reconstructing the Diet of African Hominid Australopithecus Anamensis -- ScienceDaily (17 July 2012)
  
  
• Ancient Chinese Pottery Confirmed as the Oldest Yet Found -- Guardian (28 June 2012)
  
  
• Remnants of an Ancient Kitchen Are Found in China -- New York Times (28 June 2012)
  
  
• Dental calculus provides surprise in early hominin diet -- Past Horizons (07 July 2012)
  
  
• Early human ancestor chewed bark -- BBC News (27 June 2012)
  
  
• Human Ancestors Ate Bark—Food in Teeth Hints at Chimplike Origins -- National Geographic News (27 June 2012)
  
  
• We Evolved To Eat Meat, But How Much Is Too Much? -- NPR (25 June 2012)
  • The Time Traveler's Cookbook: Meat-Lover's Edition-- NPR (25 June 2012)
    
    
• Ancient Chinese Takeout Shaanxi/Xinjiang, China -- Top 10 Discoveries of 2011, Archaeology Volume 65 Number 1, January/February 2012
  
  
• Early human ancestor chewed bark -- Helen Briggs, BBCNews (27 June 2012)
  
  
• How to Cook Like a Caveman -- NewScientist (03 May 2012)
  
  
• Must Farm Bronze Age Site: The Finds -- Past Horizons (02 April 2012)
  
  
• Deciphered Ancient Tablet Reveals Curse of Greengrocer -- Live Science (21 December 2011)
  
  
• Disappearance of the Elephant Caused Rise of Modern Humans: Dietary Change Led to Modern Humans in Middle East 400,000 Years Ago -- ScienceDaily (12 December 2011)
  
  
• Ötzi the Iceman's Stomach Throws Up a Surprise -- NewScientist (12 December 2011)
  
  
• Bronze Age Man's Lunch: A Spoonful of Nettle Stew -- Past Horizons (04 December 2011)
  
  
• Evidence of animals introduced to prehistoric Caribbean -- Past Horizons (06 December 2011)
  
  
• Chimpanzees Self-Medicate With Food -- Discovery News (29 November 2011)
  • Why Chimps Eat Dead Wood and Other Plants -- Discovery News (29 November 2011)
    
    
• Fish and Birds Gave Neanderthals Fine Dining -- New Scientist (29 October 2011)
  
  
• Food Remains in Ancient Cooking Pots Suggest Farming Caught on Slowly -- Guardian (24 October 2011)
  
  
• Shipwrecks, Amphora and DNA Offer Clues to Ancient Trade -- Past Horizons (23 October 2011)
  
  
• Early Hominid Diets: Challenged by New Technologies -- Past Horizons (15 October 2011)
  
  
• Ancient Greek Ships Carried More Than Just Wine -- Nature (14 October 2011)
  
  
• The Iceman's Last Meal: Goat -- Science News (22 August 2011)
  
  
• Man Entered the Kitchen 1.9 Million Years Ago -- Live Science (22 August 2011)
  
  
• Evolution and Domestication of Seed Structure Shown to Use Same Genetic Mutation -- ScienceDaily (07 July 2011)
  
  
• The Beer Archaeologist -- Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian (August 2011)
  
  
• Ancient Chinese Cooled Foods With Ice -- Epoch Times (28 June 2011)
  
  
• Prehistoric BBQ Leftovers Found -- DiscoveryNews (27 June 2011)
  
  
• The Iceman's Last Meal -- Science (20 June 2011)
  
  
• Farmers Were Genetic Breeders 10,000 Years Ago -- NewScientist (06 June 2011)
  
  
• Herculaneum sewer sheds light on secrets of Roman life -- BBCNews (15 June 2011)
  
  
• Iron-Age brewing evidence found in southeastern France -- BBCNews (15 June 2011)
  
  
• Archaeologists Unravel the Origins of Architecture -- Past Horizons (11 May 2011)
  
  
• Human arrival 'wiped out' Hawaii's unique crabs -- BBC News (17 May 2011
  
  
• Patterns of Ancient Croplands Give Insight Into Early Hawaiian Society, Research Shows -- ScienceDaily (16 May 2011)
  
  
• Neanderthal Palaeodiet Was Dependant on Habitat -- Past Horizons (07 May 2011)
  
  
• Rice traced to single domestication event in China -- BBC News (03 May 2011
  
  
• No Nuts for 'Nutcracker Man': Early Human Relative Apparently Chewed Grass Instead -- ScienceDaily (03 May 2011)
  
  
• Prehistoric Americans Traded Chocolate for Turquoise? -- National Geographic News (29 March 2011)
  
  
• Earliest Evidence for Magic Mushroom Use in Europe -- NewScientist (06 March 2011)
  
  
• Island Tool Finds Show Early Settlers' Diversity -- BBCNews (04 March 2011)
  
  
• This seafood buffet was held 11,000 years ago -- MSNBC (03 March 2011)
  
  
• Northern Hunters Slowed Down Advance of Neolithic Farmers -- EurekAlert (03 February 2011)
  
  
• Oldest Domesticated Dog in Americas Found—Was Human Food -- National Geographic News (17 January 2011)
  
  
• Ancient Farmers Swiftly Spread Westward -- Discovery News (10 January 2011)
  
  
• 2,400-Year-Old Pot of Soup Unearthed in China -- Discovery News (13 December 2010)
  
  
• Chinese Archaeologists Unearth 2,400-Year-Old 'Soup' -- BBC News (13 December 2010)
  
  
• Wild Food Crop Relatives to Be 'Rescued' -- BBC News (10 December 2010)
  
  
• Chinese Noodle Dinner Buried for 2,500 Years -- Discovery News (19 November 2010)
  
  
• Migrants from the Near East 'Brought Farming to Europe' -- BBC News (10 November 2010)
  
  
• Mayans Converted Wetlands to Farmland -- Nature (05 November 2010)
  
  
• Headless Gladiators Had Exotic Origins -- Discovery News (05 November 2010)
  
  
• 30,000-Year-Old Flour Finding Suggests Cavemen Craved Carbs -- Live Science (19 October 2010)
  
  
• Cavemen Ground Flour, Prepped Veggies: Evidence suggests that human ancestors made bread and soups from cattail flour 30,000 years ago -- Discovery News (18 October 2010)
  
  
• Bread was around 30,000 years ago -study -- Yahoo!News (18 October 2010)
  
  
• Human Ancestors Hunted by Prehistoric Beasts: Early humans appear to have occupied a much lower link of the food chain than their modern counterparts -- DiscoveryNews (12 October 2010)
  
  
• A Chip Off the Early Hominin Tooth: Researchers Develop Method for Determining the Diet of Our Early Ancestors -- ScienceDaily (16 September 2010)
  
  
• Ancient DNA Reveals Ingredients of Roman Medicine -- Nature (09 September 2010)
  
  
• Why cavemen could hold the key to healthy eating -- Jess Halliday, FOODnavigator.com, 20 September 2010
  
  
• Ancient Sorcerer's "Wake" Was First Feast for the Dead? -- National Geographic News (30 August 2010)
  
  
• First Clear Evidence of Organized Feasting by Early Humans -- ScienceDaily (30 August 2010)
  
  
• Ancient Bakery Found in Egyptian Desert -- Discovery News (25 August 2010)
  
  
• What the Locals Ate 10,000 Years Ago -- ScienceDaily (23 August 2010)
  
  
• Sting in the Tail of Farming Revolution [an interview with Dr Spencer Wells, re Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization (NY: Random House, 2010) -- BBC News (07 June 2010)
  • Seeds of destruction? -- Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ intervie

• Top Food Was Olives in Time of the Ancient Mariner -- Reuters (12 August 2010)
  
  
• Ancient Humans May Have Dined on Hyenas -- Discovery News (18 June 2010)
  
  
• Tracking the True Tale of Turkeys -- EurekAlert (11 June 2010)
  
  
• Crocodile and Hippopotamus Served as 'Brain Food' for Early Human Ancestors -- ScienceDaily (10 June 2010)
  
  
• Revealing the Ancient Chinese Secret of Sticky Rice Mortar -- ScienceDaily (01 June 2010)
  
  
• The World's First Fish Supper [ca. 1.95 mya] -- Science (01 June 2010)
  
  
• Fossils Suggest Menu That Made Humans Possible -- Wired (01 June 2010)
  
  
• Cows Are Key to 2,500 Years of Human Progress -- Guardian (04 April 2010)
  
  
• Stone Age Scandinavians Unable to Digest Milk, Study Shows -- Science Daily (01 April 2010)
  
  
• Traces of Early Native Americans -- In Sunflower Genes -- Science Daily (03 April 2010)
  
  
• Onions Made Pre-Human Ancestors Cry Too, Study Suggests -- LiveScience (19 March 2010)
  
  
• Bonobos Opt to Share Their Food -- BBC News (08 March 2010)
  
  
• Steak Dinners Go Back 2.5 Million Years -- MSNBC (09 February 2010)
  
  
• Native Americans tamed turkeys in 800 B.C. -- MSNBC (01 February 2010)
  
  
• Stable Climate and Plant Domestication Linked -- Science Daily (13 Janary 2010)
  
  
• Neanderthals Enjoyed Surf and Turf Meals -- Discovery News (12 January 2010)
  
  
• Stonehenge Bones May Be Evidence of Winter Solstice Feasts -- Guardian (20 December 2009)
  
  
• Stone Age Campers Set Up Separate Activity Areas -- ScienceNews (17 December 2009)
  
  
• Exploring the Stone Age Pantry -- EurekAlert (17 December 2009)
  
  
• Century-Old Butter Found in Antarctica -- DiscoveryNews (16 December 2009)
  
  
• Eight ancient drinks uncorked by science -- msnbc (15 December 2009)
  
  
• Maize Was Passed from Group to Group of Southwestern Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests -- ScienceDaily (08 December 2009)
  
  
• French Farmers Civilised Britain -- Telegraph (03 December 2009)
  
  
• Contested Signs of Mass Cannibalism -- Science News (03 December 2009)
  
  
• Cavemen Roasted Birds, Too: Although the first Thanksgiving was held in 1621, humans were roasting birds long before then -- Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News (25 November 2009)
  -- Story in Photos
  
  
• Maya Murals Give Rare View of Everyday Life -- LiveScience (09 November 2009)
  
  
• Early Humans Skipped Fruit, Went for Nuts -- Discovery News (09 November 2009)
  
  
• 200,000-year-old Cut Of Meat: Archaeologists Shed Light On Life, Diet And Society Before The Delicatessen -- Science Daily (15 October 2009)
  
  
• Edmonton archeological dig uncovers old campsite and possibly...soup -- Canwest News Service (13 October 2009)
  
  
• Penn archaeologist recreates ancient brews -- Philadelphia Inquirer (13 October 2009)
  
  
• Study Reasserts East Asian Origin for Dogs -- Science (01 September 2009)
  
  
• 'Taste test' for Neanderthal DNA -- BBC News (11 August 2009)
  
  
• Did Cooking Give Humans An Evolutionary Edge? -- NPR (28 August 2009)
  
  
• Central Europeans Were First Adults to Drink Milk -- New Scientist (28 August 2009)
  
  
• Milk Drinking Started Around 7,500 Years Ago In Central Europe -- ScienceDaily (27 August 2009)
  
  
• Early Human Hunters Had Fewer Meat-sharing Rituals -- ScienceDaily (12 August 2009)
  
  
• Dog Domestication Likely Began in Africa -- Discovery News (03 August 2009)
  
  
• Europe's 1st Farmers Were Segregated, Expert Immigrants -- National Geographic News (03 September 2009)
  
  
• Ancient Man Hurt Coasts, Paper Says -- New York Times (20 August 2009)
  
  
• Was ancient Cypriot cave a prehistoric diner? -- Reuters\Yahoo News (19 August 2009)
  
  
• 3,000-year-old butter found in Kildare bog -- Leinster Leader, Kildare Today (19 August 2009)
  
  
• Early Farmers 'Began Global Warming Process' -- Telegraph (17 August 2009)
  
  
• Neanderthals Likely Didn't Like Brussels Sprouts -- Discovery News (13 August 2009)
  
  
• 'Taste Test' for Neanderthal DNA -- BBC News (11 August 2009)
  
  
• Neandertals Led Bitter Lives -- Science (12 August 2009)
  
  
• Seafood Gave Us the Edge on the Neanderthals -- New Scientist (12 August 2009)
  
  
• Early Human Hunters Had Fewer Meat-sharing Rituals -- ScienceDaily (12 August 2009)
  
  
• Pre-Stonehenge House Reveals Domestic Life [including eating lots of hazelnuts] -- Discovery News (11 August 2009)
  
  
• Cannibal Theory Over Early Briton -- BBC News (07 August 2009)
  
  
• Cannibalism Theory Over Bone-Find -- BBC News (07 August 2009)
  
  
• Ancient Humans Left Evidence From The Party That Ended 4,000 Years Ago -- ScienceDaily (21 July 2009)
  
  
• DNA Of Ancient Lost Barley Could Help Modern Crops Cope With Water Stress -- ScienceDaily (21 July 2009)
  
  
• Neanderthals Made Mammoth Jerky -- Jennifer Viegas, Discovery (23 June 2009)
  
  
• Maize May Have Fueled Ancient Andean Civilization: Prehistoric skeletons yield evidence that farming of crop led to the rise of an early state society -- Science News (08 July 2009)
  
  
• The Last Supper Of The Hominids [Homo heidelbergensis] Establishes The Times They Lived At The Sites -- ScienceDaily (14 July 2009)
  
  
• First Direct Evidence Of Substantial Fish Consumption By Early Modern Humans In China -- ScienceDaily (06 July 2009)
  
  
• Humans Ate Fish 40,000 Years Ago -- LiveScience (07 July 2009)
  
  
• '10,000-Year-Old' Seeds Debunked-- BBC News (09 July 2009)
  
  
• Ancient primate sniffed out dinner in the trees -- MSNBC (22 June 2009)
  
  
• Chimps Mentally Map Fruit Trees -- BBC News (08 June 2009)
  
  
• Ancestors May Have Used Bone Tools to Make Smoothies -- New Scientist (22 April 2009)
  
  
• 1st Farm in Eastern U.S. Grown for Taste, Not Hunger? -- National Geographic (8 April 2009)
  
  
• High-tech Tests Allow Anthropologists To Track Ancient Hominids Across The Landscape -- Science Daily (13 February 2009)
  
  
• Dental Analytics Describe Evolution of Human Diet -- NewsWise (13 February 2009)
  
  
• 9,000-Year-Old Milk Cartons Found -- Discover (08 December 2008)
  
  
• Dirty Teeth Reveal Ancient Peruvians Ate Well -- Discovery News (2008-12-02)
  
  
  • Evidence From Dirty Teeth: Ancient Peruvians Ate Well -- Science Daily (2008-12-03)
    
    
• Oldest Marijuana Stash Found -- Discovery News (2008-12-03)
  
  
• Ew! Bad Teeth Reveal What Ancients Ate -- MSNBC (2008-12-01)
  
  
• Of Neanderthals and dairy farmers -- Harvard University Gazette (11 December 2008)
  
  
• Fish Sauce Used to Date Pompeii Eruption -- Discovery News (9/29/08)
  
  
• Fish Sauce Used to Date Pompeii Destruction -- MSNBC (9/29/08)
  
  
• Stone-Age Pilgrims Trekked Hundreds of Miles to Attend Feasts --Guardian (9/11/08)
  
  
• Stonehenge Partiers Came From Afar, Cattle Teeth Show -- National Geographic News (9/12/08)
  
  
• Stone Age Milk Use Began 2,000 Years Earlier -- National Geographic News (8/6/08)
  
  
• Love of Milk Dated Back to 6000 B.C. -- LiveScience (8/6/08)
  
  
• Early Europeans Quickly Got a Taste for Milk -- New Scientist (8/12/08)

From Anthroplogy in the News, Texas A&M
(12 May 2008)

Earliest Known American Settlers Harvested Seaweed National Geographic News (5/8/08)

• Early Americans Had a Coastal Diet Nature (5/8/08)
  
  
• First Americans Lived on Seaweed Diet Telegraph (5/8/08)
  
  
• New Evidence from Earliest Known Human Settlement in the Americas Supports Coastal Migration Theory Exploration, Vanderbilt's Online Research Magazine (5/8/08)
  
  
• Ancient Beachcombers May Have Travelled Slowly NSF (5/8/08)
  
  
• Ancient Seaweed Chews Confirm Age of Chilean Site Reuters (5/8/08)
  
  
• Seaweed Clears Up Ancient American Mystery MSNBC (5/8/08/08)
  
  
• First Americans Thrived on Seaweed New Scientist (5/8/08)
  
  
• Ancient Seaweed Tells of Earliest Americans Discovery (5/8/08)
  
  
• New Evidence from Earliest Known Human Settlement in the Americas EurekAlert (5/9/08)
  
  
• Ancient Beachcombers May Have Travelled Slowly EurekAlert (5/9/08)
  
  
• Seaweed Confirms Monte Verde Village in Chile Is Among Oldest in the Americas Los Angeles Times (5/10/08)
  
  
• New Evidence From Earliest Known Human Settlement In The America Science Daily (5/9/08)

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Scientists believe the first cacao beverages were sipped from vessels like this one, which was found in northern Honduras.

New analyses of similar pottery fragments suggest people have been enjoying chocolate for more than 3,000 years—about 500 years earlier than previously believed