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Prehistoric Europeans Ate a Varied Diet - Archaeology Magazine
Residue samples were taken from Mesolithic vessels such as this one for analysis. YORK, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the Public Library of Science, Lara González Carretero of the University of York and her colleagues analyzed residues in 58 pieces of pottery unearthed at 13 different archaeological sites in northern and eastern Europe. The pottery was dated to between the sixth and third millennia B.C. The scientists employed sca…
6,000-Year-Old Pots Reveal Prehistoric Humans Cooked Gourmet Food
Example of a Mesolithic pottery vessel analysed in this study. Credit: Lara González Carretero / CC BY 4.0 Ancient pottery fragments reveal that prehistoric humans in Europe prepared gourmet foods thousands of years ago. The findings come from a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS One and led by archaeobotanist Lara González Carretero of the University of York in the United Kingdom. Researchers say the evidence challenges the lon…
Archaeologists Discover Neolithic Europeans’ Surprisingly Complex Cuisine
An international team of archaeologists analyzed 85 pottery sherds containing significant food shell remains from 13 archaeological sites in Northern and Eastern Europe, dating from the 6th to 3rd millennium BC. They identified various plant tissues such as wildflowers, legumes, fruits, and herbaceous roots, leaves, and stems in 58 of these sherds. The findings reveal [...] The post Archaeologists Discover Neolithic Europeans’ Surprisingly Compl…
Neolithic Europeans Had Surprisingly Complex Cuisine, Archaeologists Say
An international team of archaeologists has examined a total of 85 pottery sherds with substantial amounts of foodcrusts from 13 archaeological sites across Northern and Eastern Europe i dating from the 6th to the 3rd millennium BCE. The post Neolithic Europeans Had Surprisingly Complex Cuisine, Archaeologists Say appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.
The image that traditional archaeology has offered for decades about the eating habits of the ancient Europeans could be facing a profound review. A team of researchers led by Lara González Carretero, from the University of York in the United Kingdom, has published a study in the open access magazine PLOS One that [...]
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