Ancient Food, Grains, Cooking, Farming, Foshing - Crystalinks

Ancient Food, Grains, Cooking, Fishing


No nuts for 'Nutcracker Man': Early human relative apparently chewed grass instead   PhysOrg - May 2, 2011
For decades, a 2.3 million- to 1.2 million-year-old human relative named Paranthropus boisei has been nicknamed Nutcracker Man because of his big, flat molar teeth and thick, powerful jaw. But a definitive new University of Utah study shows that Nutcracker Man didnšt eat nuts, but instead chewed grasses and possibly sedges - a discovery that upsets conventional wisdom about early humanityšs diet.

Why the switch from foraging to farming?   PhysOrg - March 7, 2011
Thousands of years ago, our ancestors gave up foraging for food and took up farming, one of the most important and debated decisions in history.

Coca leaves first chewed 8,000 years ago, says research   BBC - December 2, 2010
Peruvian foraging societies were already chewing coca leaves 8,000 years ago, archaeological evidence has shown. Ruins beneath house floors in the northwestern Peru showed evidence of chewed coca and calcium-rich rocks. Such rocks would have been burned to create lime, chewed with coca to release more of its active chemicals.

Prehistoric man ate flatbread 30,000 years ago: study   PhysOrg - October 19, 2010
Starch grains found on grinding stones suggest that prehistoric man may have consumed a type of bread at least 30,000 years ago in Europe, US researchers said.

Fossils of earliest land plants discovered in Argentina   BBC - October 12, 2010

The discovery puts back by 10 million years the colonization of land by plants, and suggests that a diversity of land plants had evolved by 472 million years ago. The newly found plants are liverworts, very simple plants that lack stems or roots.

Tool-making and meat-eating began 3.5 million years ago   BBC - August 11, 2010

Researchers have found evidence that hominins - early human ancestors - used stone tools to cleave meat from animal bones more than 3.2 million years ago. That pushes back the earliest known tool use and meat-eating in such hominins by more than 800,000 years.

Human Ancestors Were Homemakers   Live Science - December 18, 2009

Exploring the Stone Age pantry   PhysOrg - December 18, 2009

A 200,000-year-old cut of meat   PhysOrg - October 15, 2009

Diet, population size and the spread of modern humans into Europe   PhysOrg - August 11, 2009

Early human hunters had fewer meat-sharing rituals   PhysOrg - August 13, 2009

Neanderthals wouldn't have eaten their sprouts either   PhysOrg - August 12, 2009

Humans Ate Fish 40,000 Years Ago   Live Science - July 7, 2009

Mammals 'Got Milk' for Past 160 Million Years   Live Science - May 12, 2009

Stressed Skull Reveals Early Human Diet   Live Science - May 8, 2009

Chocolate Origins Traced to Beer Makers 3,000 Years Ago National Geographic - November 13, 2007

African Cave Yields Earliest Proof of Beach Living National Geographic - October 17, 2007
Cave clue to 'first beachcombers' BBC - October 17, 2007

First farmers wanted clothes not food News in Science - October 12, 2007

Fossil Meat Found in 380-Million-Year-Old Fish National Geographic - February 12, 2007

Americans Cooked With Chili Peppers 6,000 Years Ago, Study Finds National Geographic - February 15, 2007

Oldest noodles unearthed in China BBC - October 12, 2005

The first cultivated potato was grown in what is now Peru News in Science - October 4, 2005

Oldest hamster food store found - 17 million year old nuts BBC - December 2003




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