In the 1600s, people in Osaka ate dozens of species of fish, mammals and plants; 400 years later scientists found the evidence trapped in their teeth
Four centuries ago, the people living in Osaka left behind an unlikely record of what they ate. It was not written in a cookbook or preserved in a market ledger, but in the hardened deposits that accumulated on their teeth. Scientists have now analysed ancient dental calculus from eight people buried at the Ofuka-cho site, … Read more
