Articles for tag: AncientHealth, archaeology, HumanEvolution, Paleonutrition

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Scientists Are Uncovering the Secrets of Our Ancestors’ Diets and Health

Suhail Ahmed

  Not long ago, the daily menu of our distant ancestors seemed forever lost to time, dissolved with their bones and buried in forgotten soil. Now, from microscopic scraps on stone tools to proteins locked in ancient teeth, scientists are pulling remarkably vivid details out of the archaeological record. These discoveries are overturning old assumptions ...