A study led by the University of Bristol recently found that Neolithic pottery has preserved clues about humanity’s earliest relationships with grains—dating back thousands of years earlier than ...

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AMMAN — Located some 500 metres from the old Amman-Jerash road, Tell Abu Suwwan represents one of the Neolithic mega sites whose occupation goes back to Pre-Pottery Neolithic period. Today, the area ...

A team of researchers from Stanford University, Zhengzhou University, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology has learned more about the ways Neolithic ...

AMMAN — Located in northern Jordan, Basatin is a site where around 900 shreds were diagnosed from the Late Neolithic. These objects include rims, bases, handles, body sherds with decoration or other ...

Analysis of ancient and incredibly well-preserved pottery found that those visiting the crannogs used smaller pots to cook cereals with milk and larger pots for meat-based dishes. A team of scientists ...

A new study has found evidence of cheesemaking, using milk from multiple animals, in Late Neolithic Poland. The research suggests that early farmers reduced the lactose content in milk by making it ...

Neolithic Britons cooked cereals, including wheat, in pots to make early forms of gruel and stew, new research has suggested. Scientists made the discovery by carrying out chemical analysis of ancient ...

Recent research on the Neolithic period of the southern Caucasus situates the emergence of an established food-producing economy at the beginning of the sixth millennium b.c. This article reports on ...

Under most circumstances, milk that is long past its expiration date is a friend to no one. But this spoiled substance has found an unexpected niche in the field of archaeology as a surprisingly ...

Move over, 15-year cheddar. Researchers believe they may have found a sample of cheese residue dating back some 7,000 years — the earliest known appearance of the preserved dairy product.