Evidence indicates that early humans may have harnessed fire as far back as 1.8 million years ago — likely to keep predators at bay and to smoke meat in order to preserve it. Offering a rare glimpse ...

Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University ...

When archaeologists opened the tomb of Xin Zhui (Lady Dai) at Mawangdui in Changsha in 1972, they found a body that had been ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

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Traditional Chinese cured pork presented in a pile. - kungfu01/Shutterstock Imagine getting invited to a dinner party and finding out that the food being served is preserved meat? Sure, this doesn't ...

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans made it through. Reading time 5 minutes If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, ...