How can hazelnuts help recreate ancient Mesolithic hunter gatherer woodlands?

Humans in northern Europe have been eating hazelnuts — a key accessible source of energy —for at least 12,000 years. Now, a study led by the University of Oxford has shown that it is possible to analyse the carbon isotope values of hazelnuts found at archaeological sites to reveal what the places humans lived in millennia ago looked like.

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