Ancient Chinese Takeout

Top 10 Discoveries of 2011 January/February 2012

Shaanxi/Xinjiang, China
SHARE:

Today, dog soup and millet noodles may be meals only an archaeologist could love. In two tombs at opposite ends of the country, archaeologists have found the remains of intriguing dishes, well preserved in bronze vessels and clay pots and buried with the dead. In a Warring States tomb in Shaanxi Province, one team found a soup containing what they believe to be dog bones. And in Subeixi Cemetery in Xinjiang, another group of archaeologists found 2,400-year-old intact noodles made of millet. With efforts to re-create the meals, archaeologists may soon be eating like the ancients.

MORE FROM Top 10 Discoveries of 2011

  • Features January/February 2012

    Altamira Cave - Spain

    a policy article published in the journal Science in October 2011, Spanish scientists argued against the reopening of Altamira Cave, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The cave contains multicolored cave paintings featuring several red bison, dating back 14,000 years to the Upper Paleolithic.

    Read Article
  • Features January/February 2012

    Texas - United States

    From October 2010 to the end of September 2011, Texas received the smallest amount of rainfall ever recorded over a 12-month period. he receding waters are affecting local ARCHAEOLOGY, exposing sites that have been underwater for decades.

    Read Article
  • Features January/February 2012

    A Society's Sacrifice

    Why the Chimú people of ancient Peru offered what was most valuable to them

    Read Article
    (Courtesy Angiolina Abugattas)
  • Features January/February 2012

    Mountaintop Rescue

    ARCHAEOLOGY, coal, and activism collide in the Appalachian Mountains at the site of America's largest labor conflict.

    Read Article