Aug 28, 2013 by News Staff

European hunter-gatherers began farming pigs around 4600 BC, according to an international team of researchers led by Dr Ben Krause-Kyora from the Christian-Albrechts...

Aug 22, 2013 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from UK, Denmark, Germany and Spain have found evidence of the use of spices in European cuisine around 5,000 BC. Garlic mustard...

Jul 16, 2013 by News Staff

According to an international team of researchers led by Dr Amy Bogaard from the University of Oxford, Europe’s first farmers manured and watered...

Apr 24, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has used ancient DNA recovered from human remains dating from up to 5,500 BC to reconstruct the first detailed genetic...

Feb 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Strontium isotope data from the Danube Gorges in the north-central Balkan show Europe’s first farmers were immigrants. “One of the big questions...

Dec 13, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists led by University of Bristol’s biogeochemist Prof Richard Evershed say they have evidence that humans in prehistoric Europe were making cheese...