People in Europe ate seaweed for thousands of years before it largely disappeared from their diets – new research

By Karen Hardy, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Glasgow
Stephen Buckley, Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of York

Seaweed isn’t something that generally features today in European recipe books, even though it is widely eaten in Asia. But our team has discovered molecular evidence that shows this wasn’t always the case. People in Europe ate seaweed and freshwater aquatic plants from the Stone Age right up until the Middle Ages before it disappeared from our plates.

Our evidence came from skeletal remains, namely the calculus (hardened dental plaque)…

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