Conducting isotopic analysis of prehistoric human remains can provide unique insights into the kinds of foods these people ate. "Isotopes provide a chemical fingerprint of a consumer's diet and ...

It analysed some 780,000-year-old food remains found at an archaeological site in Israel, discovering some surprising findings. Researchers revealed that the ancient human group, known as hominins ...

We can learn much about ancient diets from animal remains. For example, we can estimate the number of individuals of one species represented at a site. This can give a rough idea of how much food is ...

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Although recent archaeological investigations have expanded our knowledge of prehistoric activity in London, few skeletal remains have been recovered from this period. The remains in this collection ...

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows. Not only that, the items are ...