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Vintage brews get the Midas touch

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The adjunct associate professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania examines the history of winemaking and viniculture in the light of his efforts to make a wine similar to that drunk by people in the period before Christ and in the time of the pharaohs of Egypt. Biomolecular archaeology has been used to examine the contents of ancient wine storage vessels in an attempt to identify the constituents of the wines, from which information modern brewers have been able to make what they believe to be decent facsimiles of ancient beverages.

History, Wine and wine making, Wine making

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There's still life in these old bones..

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Molecular science is revolutionising the field of archaeological study, giving researchers the opportunity to discover information like what sort of food Mesolithic man ate. The most common use of molecular science in archaeology, or in molecular archaeology, is in the study of DNA, Analysis of which can help archaeologists work out patterns of migration, the history of agriculture in a region, the spread of disease and even work out the family trees of animals long since extinct.

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It's a blessing to be born in the Garden of Eden

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Ethiopia provides paleontologists with rich ground for research into the origins of the human race. A number of experts, such as paleontologist Berhane Asfaw, are bucking the traditional trend for the best African scholars to be recruited by Western institutions by returning to the region to conduct their research after studying in the US and Europe.

Science & research, Ethiopia, Paleontology, Research, Human beings, Natural history, Humans, Man, Asfaw, Berhane

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