Stone Age cooks were surprisingly sophisticated, combining an array of ingredients and using different techniques to prepare and flavor their meals, analysis of some the earliest charred food remains ...

Archaeologists have combined DNA analysis with the study of pottery to examine the spread of broomcorn millet across Eurasia, revealing how regional culinary traditions persisted even as new crops ...

Prehistoric cooking may have been more complex than we thought, according to a study published last week in the journal Antiquity. Researchers analyzed charred food remains at two locations—the ...

COLLECTORS of Stone-age implements are well acquainted with the calcined flints known as potboilers, which are found sparsely strewn over the sites of most prehistoric settlements. As the sun-baked ...

Research shows that humans have been cooking with fire since somewhere between 780,000 and 2 million years ago, so you could say it’s, ahem, baked into our DNA. Unfortunately for our early ancestors, ...