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- February 10, 2010
- 01:49 PM
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Birds of a feather are bred together: domesticated turkeys in prehistoric SW US
by Rachel in The Sage of Discovery: Exploring the world of food one ingredient at a time
Turkeys have long been an important foodstuff in many parts of the world. In the U.S., not only has our post-colonial society been fueled by this fowl; historically, turkey meat, feathers, and bones have provided important uses for pre-contact Native Americans. But where did these birds come from? By examining the remains of turkeys from [...]... Read more »
Speller, C., Kemp, B., Wyatt, S., Monroe, C., Lipe, W., Arndt, U., & Yang, D. (2010) Ancient mitochondrial DNA analysis reveals complexity of indigenous North American turkey domestication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909724107
- December 24, 2009
- 01:34 PM
- 6,515 views
Humans Ate Grains During the Middle Stone Age
by Rachel in The Sage of Discovery: Exploring the world of food one ingredient at a time
In a recent article in Science, Julio Mercader, of the University of Calgary, discusses his discovery of “starch granules” on surfaces of stone tools dating back to 105,000 years ago at a cave site in Mozambique. In other words, in contrast to the idea that Homo sapiens relied on a cereal-less diet of nuts, roots, [...]... Read more »
Mercader, J. (2009) Mozambican Grass Seed Consumption During the Middle Stone Age. Science, 326(5960), 1680-1683. DOI: 10.1126/science.1173966
- November 2, 2009
- 01:31 PM
- 8,128 views
Fossil Fuels offers Eocene Epoch Beer
by Rachel in The Sage of Discovery: Exploring the world of food one ingredient at a time
In 1995 scientists Raul J. Cano and Monica K. Borucki uncovered endospores from a bacteria related to Bacillus sphaericus, a fungal bacteria, in the stomach of a bee. Endospores are dormant spores, surrounded by a thick protein wall, and created by bacteria in response to environmental stress. In this dormant, dehydrated state, Bacillus endospores can [...]... Read more »
Cano, R., & Borucki, M. (1995) Revival and identification of bacterial spores in 25- to 40-million-year-old Dominican amber. Science, 268(5213), 1060-1064. DOI: 10.1126/science.7538699
- October 9, 2009
- 12:32 PM
- 7,891 views
What People Eat on Dates
by Rachel in The Sage of Discovery: Exploring the world of food one ingredient at a time
Forget the supposed aphrodisiac qualities of garlic, Dana E. Amiraian and Jeffery Sobal of Cornell’s Division of Nutritional Sciences wanted to find out what kinds of foods people actually ate on dates. They published their findings in the journal, Appetite.
To look for answers, the researchers distributed questionnaires to students in an introductory biology class. Participating [...]... Read more »
Amiraian, D., & Sobal, J. (2009) Dating and eating. Beliefs about dating foods among university students. Appetite, 53(2), 226-232. DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2009.06.012
- September 14, 2009
- 11:03 AM
- 8,184 views
Discovery of Ancient Grain Silo
by Rachel in The Sage of Discovery: Exploring the world of food one ingredient at a time
Recently, the remains of 11,000 year old food silos were found during excavations at Dhra’, near the Dead Sea in Jordan. The discovery was announced in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The scientists who discovered the food storage centers believe that they predate the full domestication of plant food by about 1,000 [...]... Read more »
Kuijt, I., & Finlayson, B. (2009) Evidence for food storage and predomestication granaries 11,000 years ago in the Jordan Valley. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(27), 10966-10970. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812764106
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