Earliest Use of Nutmeg as Food Ingredient Discovered

Archaeologists find how pumpkin spice nutmeg was used 3,500 years ago.

Archaeologists find the earliest-known use of pumpkin spice nutmeg which was used as an ingredient in our food 3,500 years ago.

The team from the University of Washington found nutmeg at an archaeological site on Pulau Ay, a small island in the Banda Islands, central Maluku, Indonesia.

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‘Nutmeg was discovered on ancient ceramic potsherds in Indonesia by archaeologists, showing that it is years older than the earlier known use of the spice.’
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The spice was found as residue on ceramic potsherds and is estimated to be 3,500 years old about 2,000 years older than the previously known use of the spice.

The team led by Peter Lape, Professor at the varsity, found nutmeg not only on the pottery but also on the residue from six other plants including sago and purple yam.

These plants could have been collected from wild plants, or possibly cultivated through farming, Lape said, in the paper published in the journal Asian Perspectives.

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"It's also fascinating to see such early use of nutmeg, a spice that changed the world a few thousand years later," he added.

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