Discovering how ancient civilizations ate helps us truly understand what life was like before our time. Sometimes, those insights come from ancient food itself, left behind in traces on used cookware.

Researchers have discovered that pots like those found at some archaeological sites may hold the clues to revealing ancient cooking habits. The pots were found to hold chemical signatures of food that ...

Ever since the early days of humankind, clay pots have been an integral part of cooking. Now, a Massachusetts woman is on a mission to bring back the ancient cookware into modern times. Ever since the ...

Roadkill and corn mush Along with analyzing ancient leftovers, Evershed and his collaborators tackled the challenge of disentangling environmental contamination from food signatures. Decades ago, ...

Humans may have undergone a gradual rather than an abrupt transition from fishing, hunting and gathering to farming, according to a new study of ancient pottery. Researchers at the University of York ...

UC Berkeley archaeologists have discovered that unglazed ceramic cookware can retain the residue of not just the last supper cooked, but earlier meals as well, opening a window onto gastronomic ...

Unearthed from the graves of children, ceramic baby bottles from thousands of years ago would look perfectly at home in nurseries today. Some have little feet, and one bottle’s spout juts from a ...

Taking a second look at pottery fragments excavated back in 2005 has rewritten a chapter of Mediterranean history. A team from the University of South Florida (USF) found traces of horse meat in ...

A new analysis of 12,000- to 16,000-year-old pottery fragments suggests ancient Siberians navigated the harsh ice age climate with the help of "hot pots." Yanshina Oksana The world’s oldest pieces of ...

An experiment with unglazed clay pots hinted at how much archaeologists can learn about ancient cultures from cooking vessels. By Katherine Kornei Sure, astrophysicists have big telescopes, and ...

If you happen to dig up an ancient ceramic cooking pot, don't clean it. Chances are, it contains the culinary secrets of the past. A research team led by University of California, Berkeley, ...