500-year-old Indian village unearthed in Morganton

Topic: Indian Village Life   500-year-old Indian village unearthed in Morganton | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper. OriginalArticle: charlotteobserver  

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201204198177 | Who Owns the Past?

Topic: Ancient Native Americans Note: I have set in bold the part of the article that makes mention of ancient foods.     The federal government should fix or drop new regulations that throttle scientific study of America’s heritage. A rare set of nearly 10,000-year-old human bones found in 1976 on a seaside bluff in [...]

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Research Reveals First Evidence of Hunting by perhistoric Ohioians

Topic Ice-Age Hunting     Cleveland . . . Cut marks found on Ice Age bones indicate that humans in Ohio hunted or scavenged animal meat earlier than previously known. Dr. Brian Redmond, curator of archaeology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, was lead author on research published in the Feb. 22, 2012 online [...]

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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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Kitchen Anthropology: Home Brewing an Ancient Beer

Topic: Home brewing ancient beer Fast upon Mondays high response to my post( 589 hits my highest one day total so far), my husband ( the archaeologist) found the following article on BrewingTechniques.com. I thought you might find it of interest. My only objection lies in the postscript where the author describes setting out the [...]

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Traverse Corridor: A Prehistoric Crossroads

Topic: Ancient Native American artifacts Some artifacts from the area date back 10,000 years TRAVERSE CITY — Little was known about prehistoric northwestern lower Michigan in 1966, when anthropologist Charles Cleland and his college archaeology students started 40 summers of digging around. Cleland, then a Michigan State University professor looking for field-study opportunities for his [...]

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2011 in review

Thanks to everyone who followed my blog in 2011, I thought you might like to see my annual report. Please check back often as I report what’s out there on ancient foods and write more on the subject myself ( one of my goals for this year is more writing ), there is so much [...]

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Divers retrieve prehistoric wood from Lake Huron

Topic: Shift from hunting to farming   Divers retrieve prehistoric wood from Lake Huron. Original article: sciencedaily Dec 2011

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Agricultures role in our societies not so simple

Topic Agriculture     Agricultures role in our societies not so simple. Originalarticle: archaeologydaily.com October, 11 2011

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Northwest natives were fishers, not hunter-gatherers

Topic: Northwest Natives In two new books, the University of Oregon’s Madonna Moss challenges conventional thinking about the region’s early inhabitants, pointing to cultures built around fishing, fish processing and fish resource management. (EUGENE, Ore.) – Native people of the Pacific Northwest were fishermen and food producers, as well as stewards of their environment who [...]

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