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Features The first fungi foragers Archaeologists are starting to uncover the pivotal role mushrooms played in ancient human survival, discovers Benjamin Taub Left: Puffballs can be used to help stun bees for honey collection. Below: 10,000-year-old pottery had traces of early brewed rice beer S EVENTY-FIVE years ago, in the depths of a peat bog in Yorkshire, UK, archaeologists made a startling discovery: the perfectly preserved remains of dozens of 11,000-year-old mushrooms. Carefully cut and intentionally scorched, it is thought that these polypores were used by nomadic Mesolithic hunter- gatherers as tinder on their travels, acting as the earliest known portable fire kit. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第3586期 · 2026年3月14日。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。