Stone Age Chefs Spiced Up Food Even 6,000 Years Ago : The Salt Looks like our prehistoric ancestors were bigger foodies than we realized. ... The tiny black seeds have a hot, ...

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the raw material for the manufacture of tools.

International research team from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Nature Research Society finds early humans in ...

This pottery shard has 5,000-year-old charred food on it. (Image credit: BIAX, the Netherlands) People have been burning their porridge for at least 5,000 years, remains of a charred cooking pot ...

But based on evidence from ancient bones, spears, and porridge, Speth believes our Stone Age cousins likely boiled their food.He suggests that Neanderthals boiled using only a skin bag or a birch ...

The Stone Age equivalent of a food processor could have triggered the most momentous changes in human evolution, allowing a plant-eating ape with a big jaw and small brain to become a large ...

Life in the Stone Age was pretty tough for our ancestors. There were animals to fend off and track for food, new tools to make, and massive swings in climate to adapt to. Stone Age humans also ...

Stone Age Humans Feasted on Caviar Researchers used advanced protein analysis to identify traces of carp roe eggs left on a 6,000-year-old clay plot Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor ...

The French may have coined the term "gourmand" a few hundred years ago, but it looks like humans were flexing their foodie muscles thousands of years before that. Scientists have found the first ...