Microscopic analysis of ancient tools from Maya salt works in Belize suggest that salt was used for food preservation, according to a study. More than 1,000 years ago, the Paynes Creek Salt Works, ...

Growing up on the border between Virginia and West Virginia in the 1940s and ‘50s, Doris Douglas’ family had the same ritual every weekend during the winter months. “On Saturdays we would go down to ...

When 20 stone tools were found at a Maya salt production site in the lowlands of Belize, researchers assumed they had been used to cut wood. But microscopic analysis revealed that the instruments had ...

In an era of grocery stores and home refrigerators, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that, for most of history, people have been bound by the seasonality of food. This reality has long presented ...