Ancient humans may have cooked and eaten snails 170,000 years ago

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Snail ammunition fragments recovered successful a cave successful South Africa look to person been heated, providing the earliest grounds for humans eating snails

By Carolyn Wilke

Quaternary Science Reviews reporting that radical   astatine  the Border Cave tract  whitethorn  person  roasted and eaten snails 170,000 years ago.

A ammunition from a snail successful the household Achatinidae, akin to those thought to person been cooked astatine Border Cave successful South Africa

Marine Wojcieszak

Broken bits of shells recovered successful a cave successful South Africa person fixed researchers the earliest grounds for prehistoric radical roasting and eating snails.

Other studies person pointed to snail depletion astatine sites successful Europe astir 30,000 years agone and successful Africa astir 40,000 years ago. “There is simply a immense spread from that to our findings,” says Marine Wojcieszak, who did the caller enactment portion …

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