Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow ...

WASHINGTON—The popular image may be of Stone Age people gnawing ... of years ago ate mainly meat because of bones left behind, and little evidence of plant food.

Humans were predators for about two million years, introducing vegetation into their diet only when larger animals went extinct and animal food sources declined toward the end of the Stone Age, claims ...

WASHINGTON – The popular image may be of Stone Age people gnawing ... of years ago ate mainly meat because of bones left behind, and little evidence of plant food. Now, new findings indicate ...

Gnawing on a hunk of meat as he sits by the fire, Stone ... drying and finally grinding using specific tools. After this, the flour needed to be cooked to obtain a suitable and digestible food.

Wear patterns and starch grains found on 30,000-year-old stones from Russia, Italy and the Czech Republic suggest plant-based food ... Stone Age people, whose diet is thought to have consisted of ...

all mixed together with what was probably charred fish or meat, she says. So there's little doubt the Stone Age chefs were adding the spice to the food. Sponsor Message Saul and the team scraped ...

“It seems probable that his last meal was very fatty, dried meat - perhaps a type of Stone Age Speck or bacon,” Zink said. As Ötzi had hiked down from the South Tyrolean side of the Alps, it’s likely ...

What did people in the Stone Age ... meat ancient diets once contained, while carbon isotopes can shed light on whether the main source of protein was meat or fish. “Humans consume these foods ...