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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND—An ash-filled pit lined with rocks that may have been used as a barbeque in prehistory has been excavated at the Prastio-Mesorotsos site in western Cyprus. “If this feature was for roasting food, this pit-roast technique would have served the needs of a great number of people, possibly bands of hunters exploiting the upland resources,” read a statement from the Cyprus department of antiquities, reported in the Cyprus Mail. The excavation team, led by Andrew McCarthy of the University of Edinburgh, also uncovered a domed structure that may have been used as an oven for baking bread and roasting meat. To read about cooking and experimental archaeology, see "How to Cook Like a Mycenaean."
