Iron Age diet: new study unearths what we ate 2,500 years ago
Public invited to try recipes of barley breads eaten by our ancient ancestors
Iron Age bread with Declan Ryan, Arbutus Bread and churning of butter with Peter Foynes, director, Cork Butter Museum. Photograph Tomas Tyner/UCC.
A groundbreaking investigation into the Iron Age period in Ireland by an international team of researchers is aiming to reveal what types of food our ancient ancestors survived on.