Prehistoric Europeans spiced their cooking

[Ashley Cawley]

From a BBC News Article:

"Europeans had a taste for spicy food at least 6,000 years ago, it seems.

Researchers found evidence for garlic mustard in the residues left on ancient pottery shards discovered in what is now Denmark and Germany. The spice was found alongside fat residues from meat and fish" Read More on the article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23769911

[ADz]

[BJ]

We still have a lot to re-learn. The ancient hunter-gatherers has skills and knowledge that was mostly lost, once permanent camps and farming appeared. We tend to forget they were not simple and unsophisticated but had a skill set that was fit for purpose. I suppose if you cooked your meat in fresh leaves and the taste was better you would use the same leaves again for flavour. I wonder how much knowledge they had of the remedial properties of the plants.