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If you are someone who wants to dive deep into learning how to #EatLikeaHuman, you have come to the right place!

Sit back, click on an article below from news outlets like the South African Times, the London Times or even The Atlantic, and begin your journey on learning how to #eatlikeahuman.

Corn Conumdrum

Maize Or, The Corn Conundrum

Excerpt from Chapter 5 of Eat Like a Human published in the Spring 2023 edition of the Price Pottenger Journal

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Business of the Year MSAK

Modern Stone Age Kitchen received Business of the Year

The highest achievement bestowed on organizations and individuals by the Kent County Chamber of Commerce in recognition of their outstanding contributions through service, advocacy, and leadership. …

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Reintroducing the ESFL

Reintroducing the Eastern Shore Food Lab

The Eastern Shore Food Lab in Chestertown recently completed their inaugural board meeting. Formerly under the auspices of Washington College, the global board of this new nonprofit encompasses five …

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12 Spoons Article

12 Spoons awarded to Chestertown’s Modern Stone Age Kitchen

CHESTERTOWN — If you have the chance to meet the Schindler’s, Bill, Christina and their three teenagers, it won’t take long to find out it’s no secret how passionate they are about making foods that …

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Let’s Get Honest With Dr. Bill Schindler | TBH

When we heard Dr. Bill Schindler’s story, we knew it was something we wanted to share with our Snack Society. Dr. Schindler has dedicated his life, both at work and at home, to discovering and …

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Hunt Article

Toward a More Nourishing, Ethical and Sustainable Approach to Hunting

Article in the Tidewater TraderI eat meat. Well, more accurately, I eat animals since we practice nose-to-tail butchering, cooking and eating in our home and include more than just the meat from …

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Article for Surviving Tips

20 of the most important survival skills (according to survivalists)

A pleasant walk in the woods can quickly turn into a nightmare if you’re not prepared. Here are 20 survival skills to have in your back pocket before you head out on your next wilderness adventure.

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Price-Pottenger | Embracing Ancestral Food Practices for Optimal Health: An Interview with Bill Schindler

While some people may use nationality, religion, culture, skin color, and other qualities to separate us, the fact is that we are all one humankind, and we all have a rightful place on Mother Earth. …

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Irish Examiner

Improve your health – By Eating like a Human | Irish Examiner

Modern-day hunter-gatherer Bill Schindler reconnects our dietary past with our present-day lives to make food as safe and as nourishing as possible

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The Diet of the Future Is a Menu That Draws From the Ancient Past | Sapiens

An archaeologist and TV star transforms ancient hunting, gathering, and food processing technologies into lessons on how to prepare and consume nourishing food today—and he runs into his own past …

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Katie Couric Article

The Prehistoric Way of Eating That Can Improve Your Health | Katiecouric.com

Bill Schindler, Ph.D., is an archaeologist, primitive technologist, and chef. He brought each of these unique skill sets together to write his new book Eat Like a Human: Nourishing Foods and Ancient …

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Eastern Shore Food Lab Transitions to Independent Non-Profit

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Bill & Christina Schindler

Washington College severs ties with Eastern Shore Food Lab, both to continue food programming

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Local food archaeologist follows quest to ‘Eat Like a Human’

Dr. Bill Schindler is a local food archaeologist, primitive technologist and chef. He travels the world with his family documenting traditional food ways and works to draw inspiration from the deep …

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Billy & B Rise Location ESFL

New Partnership Between Eastern Shore Food Lab at WC and Local Baker Rise Is a Recipe for Success

The Eastern Shore Food Lab (ESFL) at Washington College is joining forces with local start-up sourdough baker Rise, adding product sales to the established ESFL space at 236 Cannon Street and …

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Cooking After Covid

I am thrilled to be able to share this unique eBook with you all from Food on the Edge, called ‘Cooking after Covid: Lessons from Lockdown’. I had a chance to contribute to this unique collaboration …

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Best of SAPIENS 2020

In the wildest of years, SAPIENS writers covered a stunning range of stories about human culture, biology, history, and language. The editorial team selected some of their top favorites and the …

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Did Processed Foods Make Us Human?

Experimental archaeologist Bill Schindler’s globe-trotting research has led him to champion a diet based on humanity’s long history of inventive food preparation techniques, from nose-to-tail butchery …

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SAPIENS | Pandemic Bakers Bring the Past to Life

As people sheltering at home take on ambitious kitchen projects, a few experimental archaeologists are reclaiming recipes from ancient societies.

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CivilEats | Interest in Foraging Is Booming. Here’s How to Do it Right

The pandemic has shifted new attention to gathering wild foods near home. We talked to nearly a dozen foraging experts and advocates about best practices.

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The Modern Stone Age Diet | Salty Magazine

Article for Salty magazine on impact of a Modern Stone Age Diet

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Brianna newspaper article

Bay Times | QA’s student starts sourdough bread business at home

CHURCH HILL — During the pandemic, 16-year-old Queen Anne’s County High School student Brianna Schindler took on the task of starting her own sourdough bread business called Rise.

“When the …

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The Hill | While COVID Wrecks the Economy, US Entrepreneurship and New Ventures are Hopeful Green Sprouts

The answer has been overwhelming; here are a few of the many stories I have received. One I really like was sent to me by Washington College archaeologist Bill Schindler, whom many will know as the …

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The Recorder | Prehistoric processes: What they teach us about modern food

Dr. Bill Schindler demonstrated the ancient methods of flint-knapping Saturday, saying it’s one thing all human ancestors did to survive, making tools like hand axes and spearheads. Schindler is an …

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La Vanguardia Newspaper | Buscando los orígenes de la cocina a ambos lados del charco

Empecé la semana en el Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya, en la presentación del primer volumen de la sección Histórica de la Bullipedia dedicado al Paleolítico y Neolítico; los orígenes de la cocina. …

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Wall Street Journal | Is LinkedIn a Waste of Time?

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THERE ARE over 673 million users on LinkedIn, but “most people have an account because they’ve been told they should or need to have one—then they never use it or update it,” said Andrew Selepak, …

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Edible Delmarva | Hungry to Learn

It’s a cold, dark night in Chestertown, Maryland, but the windows of the new Eastern Shore Food Lab at Washington College glow warmly, attracting hungry foodies to the event inside. The local buzz …

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Kent County News | Schindlers are a ‘Modern Stone Age Family’

Schindlers are a “Modern Stone-Age Family”

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Bay Times | Yesterday’s food, today’s table

Church Hill family becomes Modern Stone Age Family.

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Record Observer | A local Modern Stone Age Family

Church Hill family becomes Modern Stone Age Family

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South African Newspaper article

South African Sunday Times | Reinventing the Diet Wheel by Anstey, Gillian

Bill Schindler is not just a buff, gung-ho daredevil. Sure, he has pranced around for days in desolate environments wearing animal skins and doing whatever it takes to survive, whether it be spearing …

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Article in Irish Times

Irish Times | Food Archaeology Goes Back to Its Roots

US professor suggests that by re-connecting with the food of our ancestors, we can also build a more sustainable food system with fewer risks of allergies and food intolerances

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Irish Times

Irish Times | The Best Things to Do Around Ireland this Autumn & Winter by Scales, J & Leonie Corcoran

If you’d like to bring some expertise to your foraging, chef Kevin Thornton has started his series of Wild Food Outings and joins Dr Bill Schindler of the National Geographic Show The Great Human Race …

Learn MoreIrish Times | The Best Things to Do Around Ireland this Autumn & Winter by Scales, J & Leonie Corcoran
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Kenyan Tuko | Meet professor who lives in CAGE and teaches his students how to live like Stone Age people

Bill Schindler, a renowned American professor of anthropology, has reportedly been living in a cage for nearly his entire life. Schindler, who is nicknamed ‘Professor Caveman’ because of his Stone Age …

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Radio New Zealand | Teaching Kids to Live like a Caveman

We would all benefit from a deeper connection to our inner hunter gatherer, an anthropology and archaeology teacher says. Bill Schindler is not your regular college professor. He teaches anthropology …

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The Atlantic | Professor Caveman

“That’s my blood, not the deer’s,” said Eden Kloetzli, a senior at Washington College, in Maryland, as she gazed at the red liquid staining her palm. She and about a dozen other students were busy …

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Schindlers in the London Times

The London Times | Meet the Schindlers: a Modern Stone-Age Family

A few years ago Bill Schindler, an American professor of anthropology who teaches college students how to live like early humans, asked his class to crack some eggs and separate the yolks from the …

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Kenyan Mirror Article

Kenyan Mirror | Real-life Caveman Makes his Kids Hunt Deer with a Bow and Arrow and Wears Animal Skins

Bill Schindler is an expert in primitive ways of living and thinks we should all look to the past to live better today so much so hes’ been dubbed “Professor Caveman”.

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Washington Post Article

Washington Post | Live it: A Professor teaches the cell-phone generation about prehistory – blood, guts and all

Erin Bloodgood takes the flesh off of a deer hide as part of her Experimental Archeology and Primitive Technology class with Bill Schindler, an anthropologist at Washington College.

Learn MoreWashington Post | Live it: A Professor teaches the cell-phone generation about prehistory – blood, guts and all
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Instec Insights | 5 Lessons from the Great Human Race online.

In February 2016 the National Geographic channel launched The Great Human Race. The show stars experimental archeologist Bill Schindler and survival instructor Cat Bigney as they track the evolution …

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Baltimore Sun Article

Baltimore Sun | Maryland Professor roughs it for National Geographic and primitive experience

“The Great Human Race,” a weekly television series that began airing on the National Geographic Channel on Feb. 1 will conclude its 10th and final episode Monday. The series features Bill Schindler, …

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The Risk of Being Human

Washington College Magazine | The Risk of Being Human

I am alone, shivering, bobbing in a dugout canoe off the coast of Oregon, wearing a soaking wet loincloth I fashioned from brain-tanned deerskins.

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Temple University | The Great Migratory Patterns of Bill Schindler

Bill Schindler could barely see a thing. Home from college – this time for good, after a second attempt to make it work at Ohio State University failed – his mother asked him to look at something on …

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Bill in a loin cloth in the desert

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Lecturing in a Loincloth

I am alone, shivering, bobbing in a dugout canoe off the coast of Oregon, wearing a soaking wet loincloth I fashioned from brain-tanned deerskins. The water is 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and I’m worried …

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Church Hill Man stars in NatGeo Show

Kent County News | Church Hill man co-stars in ‘The Great Human Race’

Washington College Professor Bill Schindler, uses a stone as a hammer while his co-host Cat Bigney looks on during a scene from “The Great Human Race.” The show premiered Feb. 1 and airs at 10 p.m. …

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The College of New Jersey | TCNJ alumnus taps inner caveman on new Nat’l Geographic Channel show

Bill Schindler ’00 literally lives his work, and starting tonight, America will get to follow this anthropologist and primitive technology expert on his survival journey around the globe

Learn MoreThe College of New Jersey | TCNJ alumnus taps inner caveman on new Nat’l Geographic Channel show
Bill with kids in Italy

Reading Eagle | Unwanted Horses: Horse meat is a menu for controversy.

Schindler is more concerned with where his food comes from and how it was raised than what it is. Aside from his dog, Schindler would try any meat. He’ll be tasting horse meat for the first time …

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Washington College Magazine | Closer to the Bone

in seeking to understand our ancestral relationship with food, anthropology professor Bill Schindler pushes students to connect with the past as a way to re-examine the present.

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BBC | Cómo alimentarse de lo que crece en los parques. (BBC Mundo video coverage of an urban foraging tour conducted in Washington D.C.)

Running away from processed foods with their additives, pesticides, hormones and preservatives, every day there are more people looking for alternatives to supplement their diet.

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BBC Persia Interview

BBC Persia | Hunting in the Primitive Way.

Trying to “bring a piece of bread to the table” can sometimes literally mean hunting, farming and baking.

In this week’s world, Sam Farzaneh went to an American man who wants to prepare his family …

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World is my Salad article

BBC Persia | The World is my Salad Bowl

That is, if Baba Tahir looked naked in the desert, he saw his friend, and when he looked at the sea, he saw his friend again, and in short, when he looked at the mountains and the door and the plain, …

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BBC Living Like our Ancestors in the 21st Century

BBC Persia | Living Like our Ancestors in the 21st Century

Most people in the world go to the shops to buy food, but there are still some who still prefer to find their food in the plains and forests. One of these people is William Schindler; University …

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Found Foods in Nation's Backyard

Small Bites | Food Found in our Nation’s Backyard ( Article covering urban foraging tour on Capitol Hill and BBC filming published in the Hill Rag)

Dr. Bill Schindler is an associate professor of prehistoric anthropology at Chestertown, Maryland’s Washington College, and he’s also wildly enthusiastic about foraging, a skill he started acquiring …

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Urban Foraging

Washington Post | Urban Foraging Class Seeks Tasty Weeds in Capitol Hill Alleys and Median Strips

Bill Schindler ran his hand over a patch of violets, ignoring the nearby rat trap and the brown paper bag crumpled around an empty can of Colt .45 malt liquor. He was searching for flowers to eat.

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Urban Foraging Class Seeks Tasty Weeds in Capitol Hill Alleys and Median Strips.

Bill Schindler ran his hand over a patch of violets, ignoring the nearby rat trap and the brown paper bag crumpled around an empty can of Colt .45 malt liquor. He was searching for flowers to eat.

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Frederick News Post | Speaker: To Eat Better, Look Back to Prehistoric Times

Today’s human diet reflects our modern world. Human development, however, does not.

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To Eat Better, Look Back to Prehistoric Times: Article covering a lecture delivered at Gettysburg College

Today’s human diet reflects our modern world. Human development, however, does not.

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Best Meal of Dr. Schindler

Chesapeake Eats | The Best Meal I Ever Caught: Professor Bill Schindler Talks Hunting, Foraging, and Connecting with your Food.

Professor Bill Schindler talks hunting, foraging, and connecting with your food
If you bring up the subject of food with Bill Schindler, be prepared to roam across a wide range of topics. Schindler, …

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The Chronicle of Higher Education | The Cutting Edge of Prehistoric Technology

Students in an experimental-archaeology course at Washington College, in Maryland, learn how to skin a carcass with a stone blade from Tom Pitre, an avid local deer hunter and a friend of Bill …

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Try Foraging for your Thanksgiving Meal

NPR | Try Foraging for your Thanksgiving Meal

The Thanksgiving drill is pretty familiar: turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie. But what would Native Americans have brought as sides?

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Lethal Flint

Eksperimentelt Ideer | Dødbringende Flint (translation: Lethal Flint)

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Education by the plateful

Washington Post | Education by the plateful: College course uses food to teach basic skills.

As part of her end-of-semester project, Washington College freshman Billie Ricketts spent time carefully plucking the hairs from a boiled pig’s head. Then she and her classmates dug out the meat, fat, …

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A Caveman Can Do It

Washington College Magazine | A Cave Man Can Do It

Experimental Archaeologist Bill Schindler and his students test our best theories about how prehistoric people lived, and learn skills which prove that “primitive” is not just another word for …

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