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How Lipid Analyses Unravel Ancient Food Habits and Culinary Practices

Chromatography and compound specific isotope analysis of lipid remains in ancient pottery tell a lot about ancient food habits and culinary practices. In the...

Chinchorro Culture: Mankind’s Oldest Artificial Mummification

The oldest evidence of artificial mummification in the world comes from pre-historic Chinchorro culture of South America (in present Northern Chile) which is older than Egyptian by about two...

The Nebra Sky Disk and ‘Cosmic Kiss’ Space Mission

The Nebra Sky Disk has inspired the logo of the space mission ‘Cosmic Kiss’. This space mission of the European Space Agency is the declaration of...

Stonehenge: The Sarsens Originated from West Woods, Wiltshire

The origin of sarsens, the larger stones that make the primary architecture of Stonehenge was an enduring mystery for several centuries. The geochemical analysis1 of...

An Accurate Diagnostic Marker for “Ancient Beer” Research and Evidence of Malting in Neolithic Central Europe

A team involving the Austrian Academy of Sciences have presented a novel microstructural marker for malting in the archaeological record. In doing so, the...

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