Other hominins may have also been processing otherwise inedible foods with this technology, added Thomas Plummer of Queens College
ancient archaeology
The piece was originally at the bottom of a cup
The practice may have kept land in the family
The fortress would have been large enough to shelter hundreds of people at a time
Some 8,000 years ago, Neolithic farmers from Anatolia and the Middle East brought dogs weighing about 33 pounds with them to central and southeastern Europe
The 3,000-year-old pieces include the torsos of two boxers
Marble blocks at the site may have served as steps leading to the mudbrick temple
Scientists hope to understand the secrets hidden in the small relics found in the catacombs of the Capuchin monastic order in Palermo by using X-rays
The researchers burned different types of fuel in a replica house built at the site in the 1990s
The central hall was surrounded with rows of marble columns and capitals