Robert D’Anjou and his team from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have found that coprostanol, a by-product of the human digestion of cholesterol, can be found and measured in core samples taken from lake sediments. In the past, scientists have measured the presence of charcoal and pollen from cultivated plants in lake sediments in […]

Archaeologists from the University of Manchester digging in western Cyprus say that a 3,500-year-old domed kiln they unearthed near Paphos was used to dry malt and make beer during the Bronze Age. They also found grinding tools and mortars that may have been used to break down the grain, along with a hearth, cooking pots, […]