Jun 4, 2025 by News Staff

The use of fire marks a critical milestone in human evolution, with its initial purposes debated among scholars. While cooking is often cited as the primary...

Aug 23, 2023 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the University of Zurich and elsewhere have analyzed protein residues from ancient cooking cauldrons and found that the people of Caucasus...

Oct 18, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleoanthropologists have analyzed zinc, strontium, carbon, and oxygen isotope and trace element ratios in a fossilized Neanderthal tooth as well as animal...

Feb 22, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists from Australia, Italy, Poland and Switzerland has examined the association between meat intake and life expectancy at a population...

May 17, 2021 by News Staff

Vegetarians appear to have lower levels of disease biomarkers that can lead to cell damage and chronic disease, according to new research from the University...

Jan 13, 2021 by News Staff

New research led by the University of Helsinki suggests that dog domestication needs to be understood in terms of competition over resources in the particularly...

Dec 10, 2020 by News Staff

Beef samples treated with sous vide — a technique in which food is vacuum-sealed in a plastic pouch and then placed in a water bath or steam environment...

Dec 9, 2020 by News Staff

An analysis of ceramic lipid residues from rural and urban sites of the Indus Civilization in northwest India provides chemical evidence for milk, meat...

Dec 9, 2020 by News Staff

According to a new study published in The BMJ, substituting high quality plant foods such as legumes, nuts, or soy for red meat might reduce the risk of...

Oct 18, 2018 by News Staff

An analysis of ancient food proteins preserved in ceramic vessels found at the key early farming site of Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia, in what is...

Sep 7, 2017 by News Staff

In a research article published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, Professor Koh Woon Puay of the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, and colleagues...

Oct 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a multinational team of scientists led by Dr Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo of Complutense University, Madrid, a fragment of a child’s skull...