Curated category
Meat
- PoultryAround 8,000 years ago in Southeast Asia, people began keeping the red junglefowl. Genomic studies confirm this timeline, correcting earlier beliefs that…
- PorkArchaeologists have uncovered evidence of pig husbandry in Mesopotamia dating back to 13,000 BC. This timeline places the domestication of pigs among the…
- MeatPaleontological evidence suggests that meat constituted a substantial proportion of the diet of the earliest humans. Early hunter-gatherers depended on the…
- Curing (food preservation)Sea salt crystals crunch against the raw surface of a ham in 2024, beginning a chemical dance that has preserved food for millennia.