ANCIENT CUISINE - GREEK AND ROMAN
Greek Cuisine 1. Between 800 BCE and 500 BCE, people preferred their food unadorned, favouring cooking methods such as spit-roasting. Complicated techniques and rich and sticky sauces were held in...
View ArticleNEOLITHIC REVOLUTION AND THE DISCOVERY OF AGRICULTURE
The Great Technological Discoveries of Pre-history1. The Discovery of ToolsAlthough there are examples of "tools" being used by animals from ants to apes, the development of tools is one of the...
View ArticleANCIENT KERNEL- CLUE TO ORIGINS OF FARMING?
M. Steven Shackley,In a remote cave, archeologists discover earliest sign yet of maize agriculture in North America.The earliest sign of agriculture in North America -- a tiny kernel of corn -- has...
View ArticleANCIENT ANIMAL DOMESTICATION
Over the millennia, humans seeking a steady source of food, hides and wool, and companionship have tamed everything from wolves to turkeys to guinea pigs. Learning when--and why--each of the more than...
View ArticleCANNIBALISM NORMAL FOR EARLY HUMANS?
Summary: Genetic markers commonly found in modern humans all over the world could be evidence that our earliest ancestors were cannibals, according to new research. Scientists suggest that even today...
View ArticleCATTLE THE MOST USEFUL ANIMAL OF ANCIENT EGYPT
From very ancient Egyptian rock carvings in the Eastern desert, we can surmise that from the earliest of times, cattle were viewed as an important indicator of personal status, to the extent that they...
View ArticleEVOLUTION, CONSEQUENCES AND FUTURE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL DOMESTICATION
Domestication interests us as the most momentous change in Holocene human history. Why did it operate an so few wild species, in so few geographic areas? Why did people adopt it at all, why did they...
View ArticleDIETARY CHANGE WAS A DRIVING FORCE IN HUMAN EVOLUTION
We humans are strange primates.We walk on two legs, carry around enormous brains and have colonized every corner of the globe. Anthropologists and biologists have long sought to understand how our...
View ArticleHISTORY OF COOKING
Evolution of cooking - from B.C. to the 7th century A.D. (incl.) EARLIEST TYPES OF COOKING The origins of cooking are obscure. Primitive humans may first have savoured roast meat by chance, when the...
View ArticleEATING LIKE A CAVEMAN
It's Day One of my caveman diet, and I'm sitting down to a breakfast unlike any I've eaten before. Next to the sliced banana are two fluffy scrambled eggs and a boneless chicken breast. No oatmeal. No...
View ArticleEATING
The key premise is that the safest and healthiest foods are those to which we have had the longest exposure and therefore the greatest opportunity to adapt. Adaptation means that our bodies have ways...
View ArticleHISTORY OF FOOD IN CHINA
INTRODUCTION "Nature has four seasons and five elements [earth, fire, metal, water, and wood]; to grant a long life the four seasons and the five elements store up the power of creation within...
View Article12 MOST OVERRATED HEALTHY FOODS
Dig deeper to avoid being misled by products that don’t necessarily deliver all you expect.If you’re a loyal Eat This, Not That! reader, by now you know that sports drinks, energy bars, and even green...
View ArticleCHILD SOLDIERS - INNOCENCE UNDER FIRE
From Medieval times to the modern day, young children have been put to tragic use in warfare.1. Children of “hard flesh”.Wrenched from their homes at the age of seven, Sparta’s boys were battle-ready...
View ArticleGEORGE OTTO GEY: HERO OR VILLAIN?
The scientist who changed biomedical research by immortalising a woman without her knowledge.There were no drugs for cancer in the 1920s. It was the knife or radiation, and the outlook for patients was...
View ArticleDITADURA ENVERGONHADA - O EXÉRCITO APRENDE A TORTURAR
A máquina policial do governo atacou a esquerda armada em Minas Gerais. Num só lance, acabou com o Colina e com um pedaço da AP. O Colina tinha pouco mais de seis meses e um razoável desempenho. Matara...
View ArticleFOOD PROCESSING AND PRESERVATION
Throughout the history of mankind science has searched into the realms of the unknown. Along with it bringing new discoveries, allowing for our lives to become healthier, more efficient, safer, and at...
View ArticleFOOD IS SACRED
Food is sacred. To nearly a billion Roman Catholics on this planet, a scrap of bread or wafer of wheat, when blessed by a priest, becomes the body of Christ.To Hutterite colonies scattered over the...
View ArticleWHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER?
A new facility will store tens of thousands of cryogenically frozen people. The hope is to one day bring them back to life, but just how realistic.For centuries, the world’s physicists, writers and...
View ArticleFALSOS CONCEITOS
Samuel F. B. Morse na realidade não inventou o telégrafo. Conseguiu toda a informação necessária da invenção de um físico americano, Joseph Henry, e mais tarde negou que Henry o tivesse ajudado. (Henry...
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