Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new study has ...

Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.

Further south, in the Don River basin, the menu changed. There, the “chefs” were obsessed with seeds. The foodcrusts were packed with wild grasses and wild legumes, like clover, all cooked together ...

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 ...