Ancient plants back to life after 30,000 frozen years

Topic: Ancient fruit Scientists in Russia have grown plants from fruit stored away in permafrost by squirrels over 30,000 years ago. The fruit was found in the banks of the Kolyma River in Siberia, a top site for people looking for mammoth bones. The Institute of Cell Biophysics team raised plants of Silene stenophylla – [...]

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To Prevent Insects From Eating Your Seeds, Use The Egyptian Method

Topic: Ancient Methods-Modern uses           One of the most interesting things that I noticed in my excavation, in what seems to be a storage building that dates to the Old Kingdom in Giza, is a concentration of ash. This ash surrounded circular mud brick silos that had been constructed beside each [...]

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Ancient Farmers had Impact on Disappearance of African Rainforests | Popular Archaeology – exploring the past

Topic: African Rainforest   Ancient Farmers had Impact on Disappearance of African Rainforests | Popular Archaeology – exploring the past.     Original article: popular-archaeology.com Feb 2012

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Jerusalem dig uncovers earliest evidence of local cultivation of etrogs

Topic: Pollen reveals ancient palace grew the citrus in its garden.     The earliest evidence of local cultivation of three of the Sukkot holiday’s traditional “four species” has been found at the most ancient royal royal garden ever discovered in Israel. The garden, at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel in Jerusalem, gave up its secrets through [...]

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Viking barley in Greenland

Topic: More on Barley growing in Greenland The Vikings are both famous and notorious for their liking of beer and  mead and archaeologists have discussed for years whether Eric the Red  (ca 950-1010) and his followers had to make do without the golden drink  when they settled in Greenland around the year 1,000:  The climate [...]

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San Gabriel dig site offers new insight into California history – Pasadena Star-News

Topic: Dig in San Gabriel uncovers food in trash pit   San Gabriel dig site offers new insight into California history – Pasadena Star-News. Original article: By Lauren Gold 2/2 2012

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Evidence suggests Vikings grew grain in south Greenland

Topic: Brewing Beer in ancient Greenland Archaeologists from the Danish national museum have finally succeeded in  confirming that Erik the Red and his people could indeed brew beer in Greenland  when they lived there. There has long been a question mark over whether or not the southern  Greenlandic climate was warm enough in Viking times [...]

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Must Farm quarry, England Bronze age site

Oiver three thousand years ago the inhabitants of a small southeast fenland community were skilled boat builders, enjoyed fishing, and practised a method of eel trapping still in use today in East Anglia. Mark Knight, senior project officer for Cambridge Archaeological Unit, said: “It’s archaeology like it’s never been preserved before.” The incredibly detailed picture [...]

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Egyptians gave ibis birds a packed lunch for the afterlife

Topic: ancient bird food Ancient Egyptians paid special attention to the organs of their dead, embalming them so they would continue to function in the afterlife. Now it seems they did the same for sacrificed ibis birds, and even packed their stomachs with food so they wouldn’t go hungry. Ibis mummies are found in their [...]

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Complex Fish Traps Over 7,500 Years Old Found in Russia

Topic: Ancient Russian fishing traps One might argue that the stone age technology among people living in Russia during the Mesolithic and Neolithic ages was relatively unimpressive. But the fishing equipment of a certain group living near present-day Moscow more than 7,500 years ago would be something to shout about, according to archaeologists. An international [...]

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