Animation illustrates how four of the ancient world’s most important domesticated grain crops spread across the Old World between 7,000 and 3,500 years ago. Credit: Xinyi Liu; Animation by Javier ...

Join 24,000 of your neighbors and stay in tune with the Triangle. Sarah Murray’s book, Moveable Feasts, doesn’t take food as its organizing topic, but the transport of food. The 12 chapters take up ...

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Recycling much historical material from the magisterial Cambridge World History of Food (which the author co-edited), this slender volume distills 10,000 years of food history into just 300 pages.

Archaeologist Xinyi Liu at Washington University in St. Louis teamed up with Martin Jones of the University of Cambridge to write a new paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

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Prehistoric peasant farmers struggling to put more food on the table fueled the global spread of some of the world's first and most important domesticated grain crops beginning as early as 7,000 years ...

Preface -- Introduction : From foraging to farming -- Last hunters, first farmers -- Building the barnyard. Dog ; Sheep and goats ; Pig ; Cattle ; Horse ; Camel ...

Since the beginning of archaeology, researchers have combed the globe searching for evidence of the first domesticated crops. Painstakingly extracting charred bits of barley, wheat, millet and rice ...