Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By analyzing microscopic remnants of burnt food left on pots, researchers now think that Stone Age cooks had complex diets, and ...

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in decorative crafts, such as pendant-making, archaeologists have shown. It has long ...

Hands-on experiments to understand Neanderthal food preparation reminded me of my time working with a class of reluctant 14 and 15-year-olds. We were studying early “man”, including flint tools. I ...

Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new study has found, combining ingredients in “remarkably selective” ways, with cuisines ...