Atlatls or spear-throwers
Atlatl history: this is an ancient atlatl What is an atlatl? An atlatl, or spear-thrower, is a wooden or bone stick with a hook on one end that you can [...]
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Japanese food history
Japanese sushi Food in Stone Age Japan The very earliest people who lived in Japan, starting about 40,000 years ago, lived mainly on fish caught from the sea, though they sometimes hunted local deer or [...]
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The Crab and the Crane – Jataka Tales
A crane in India A Buddhist story Crane was very greedy, and not very honest. He wanted to eat all the fish in his little pond, so he thought of [...]
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Indian food history – Early India
Indian food: rice, chapatis, sauces, lentils What did people eat in ancient India? The earliest Indians, the Harappans, probably ate mainly wheat and rice, millet and sorghum, chickpeas and lentils. Often they ate fish, if they lived near the coast [...]
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Ancient Greek food – History of Food – Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek food - Platter with fish (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Sacrifice and Greek food Food, for people in Ancient Greece, was what separated people from animals, and from the [...]
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Northern European food history
Northern Europeans ate a lot of ham Food is one of the most important ways that people can show what group they belong to: we eat this kind of food, [...]
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Silurian period – Fish get jaws
Silurian period: Trout swimming When was the Silurian period? The beginning of the Silurian period was about 443 million years ago. Some environmental problem at the end of the Ordovician [...]
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Devonian Period – fish, lungfish
Coelocanth: a fish from the Devonian period When was the Devonian period? Four hundred and sixteen million years ago, when the Silurian period ended and the Devonian period began, most [...]
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What kinds of foods have protein?
Medieval painting of a man with a pig Proteins are foods that your body can use as building blocks to make muscle or skin or bones. Some foods that have [...]
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History of fishing since the Stone Age
When did people start fishing? History of fishing: Stone carving of a fish (San Francisco, ca. 7000 BC) People probably began fishing in Africa, very early on in human history. [...]
