A study of prehistoric stone tools has suggested that a group of early humans ate a surprisingly diverse range of plant foods ...

Ability of early humans to process plants using tools indicative of high level of cooperation, researchers say ...

A new archaeological study, conducted along the Jordan River banks south of northern Israel’s Hula Valley, offers a fresh ...

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Research uncovers early humans' reliance on plant-based foods, revealing ancient tools and 780,000-year-old starch grains.

These starchy tubers, nuts and roots are rich in carbohydrates, thus, would have been an important source of energy for the prehistoric humans who consumed them. The study, published in the ...

Cassava’s many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop, except for one drawback: It’s highly poisonous. Human ingenuity ...

Scientists have recently uncovered food remnants that provide interesting insights into the diets of early ancestors.As per ...

particularly starchy tubers, nuts, and roots rich in carbohydrates, played in meeting the energy demands of the human brain. They also reveal the sophisticated methods early humans used to process ...