Seeing the wood for the trees: using hazelnuts to reconstruct ancient woodlands
Published on March 1, 2024
Humans in northern Europe have been snacking on 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.