A goat's tooth may have solved a 100‑year debate about ancient Greek farming

The agricultural economy was the backbone of wealth in ancient Greece.

Food brought people together, whether in smaller groups at a wine-drinking symposium or the entire community in a sacrificial feast of epic proportions.

In The Odyssey, the ancient Greek epic poem, Odysseus' son joins one of these early feasts—a community barbecue of 100 cattle. ...