15,000 Years Ago, Desert Dwellers Dined on Snakes and Lizards
Microscopic cut marks and flint scrapes show Natufians butchered large snakes and lizards for food, including species chosen for size and safety, researchers said.
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Natufian Hunters May Have Consumed Reptiles - Archaeology Magazine
Microscopic image showing cut marks on a bone from a large whip snake (Dolichophis jugularis) KIEL, GERMANY—According to a statement released by Kiel University, analysis of cut marks on bones suggests that hunter-gatherers living in a small settlement on northern Israel’s Mount Carmel some 15,000 years ago hunted and consumed reptiles. “Lizards and snakes became an important part of [the Natufian] diet during this period,” said Maayan Lev of Ki…
Snake bones with flint cuts show Mount Carmel settlers ate reptiles 15,000 years ago
Around 15,000 years ago, the way of life of human communities in the southern Levant underwent a fundamental change. Groups of hunter-gatherers, who until then had been nomadic, reduced their mobility and established small, permanent settlements for the first time.
Researchers have identified that the Natufians, considered the first sedentary peoples of the Levant, included reptiles such as lizards and snakes in their diet. The research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides new evidence about the diet and lifestyle of these communities that inhabited the region about 15,000 years ago. Historical context of the Natufians The Natufians were groups of hunter-gathe…
Approximately fifteen thousand years ago, the hunter-gatherer communities that populated the south of the Levant experienced a radical transformation in their social and spatial organization. Those groups that had until then maintained a nomadic regime, moving behind the herds and seasons, drastically reduced their mobility and established the first permanent settlements of which [...]
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