Mysterious Desert Lines Were Animal Traps

Mysterious lines on the deserts of the Near East are massive ancient hunting tools, made up of low stone walls.

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A 200,000-Year-Old Cut of Meat

Topic: Sharing Meat   Contestants on TV shows like Top Chef and Hell’s Kitchen know that their meat-cutting skills will be scrutinized by a panel of unforgiving judges. Now, new archaeological evidence is getting the same scrutiny by scientists at Tel Aviv University and the University of Arizona. Their research is providing new clues about [...]

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First Beehives from Ancient Israel Discovered

Topic: Bees- Recently discovered beehives from ancient Israel 3,000 years ago appear to be the oldest evidence for beekeeping ever found, scientists reported. Archaeologists identified the remains of honeybees — including workers, drones, pupae, and larvae — inside about 30 clay cylinders thought to have been used as beehives at the site of Tel Rehov [...]

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9,000 year old beer recreated

Topic: Recreating ancient beer A 9,000 year old beer made of rice, honey and hawthorn may give a whole new meaning to cracking open a cold one. The beer, called Chateau Jiahu, will come July be on sale in British Columbia and depending on sales perhaps sometimes soon in the rest of Canada. Chateau Jiahu [...]

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Bakers and Brewers from Meketre’s model bakery

Topic: Bread and beer-Models of Bakers and Brewers   Happy Summer solstice everyone!   Pictures of the models:                      Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, reign of Amenemhat I, ca. 1975 b.c. Egyptian; From the tomb of Meketre, western Thebes Plastered and painted wood.   The figures in Meketre’s models, especially those from the combined [...]

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Humans made fire 790,000 years ago

Topic: Fire-there goes Raw Food    My Thoughts: Did they mean discover fire, I hope so.  I do wonder why it took so long for the first fast food diner -oh wait once we could control fire, everything was fast food-or at least a bit easier to eat; Good Eats, well that might have had to wait for spices [...]

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Respect Your Elders, Human!

Topic; Prehistoric kitchens and jewlery Neanderthals were using jewelry like ancient Yankees caps before Homo sapiens arrived, and hominids had kitchens and workshops nearly a million years ago. We Homo sapiens consider ourselves pretty special, with our symbolic art, abstract thinking, and highly organized societies. But evidence is mounting that these hallmarks of modern human behavior [...]

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Earliest Agriculture in the New World

Topic: New World Seeds: Dating of squash seeds from a cave in Oaxaca, Mexico, has confirmed that plant domestication in the Americas began some 10,000 years ago. The new finding, reported by Smithsonian archaeologist Bruce Smith in the journal Science, indicates that planting began in the New World about the same time as in the [...]

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A Thousand Loaves of Bread

Topic: A friends passing Today I want to share with you the passing of a friend of mine and a devoted eater of my bread, Rev Harold Moss, Church of the Eternal Source. Only my husband who only eats my bread and no other( except perhaps sandwich bread), has given me so much pleasure by [...]

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Tools show ancient human diet

Topic : Diet and Brain Development Almost two million years ago, early humans began eating food such as crocodiles, turtles and fish – a diet that could have played an important role in the evolution of human brains and our footsteps out of Africa, according to new research. In what is the first evidence of [...]

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