The research team discovered that they were consumed over the entire course of the early human 200,000-year inhabitation.
Prehistoric ancestors ate a rich variety of plant-based foods during the Stone Age, say scientists who discovered a collection of 780,000-year-old edible plants in Israel.
Dough, fried. It is a humble snack, fuel for late-night stakeouts, comfort after a day toiling at the nuclear power plant. Its pleasures are prehistoric - fossilized ring-shaped cakes have been unearthed, dating back 8,000 ...
'It gets better with age, the best is yet to come' is a quote we often refer to when we talk of wine, but now there's another contender - a 2000-years old lump of butter ...
A recently conducted study gives direct evidence that Paleolithic people living in a cave near Tel Aviv around 40,000 years ago, learnt the importance of storing food for rainy days.
The researchers examined over 450 prehistoric pots out of which, 66 pots had traces of lipids organic compounds that are insoluble in water.