Humans 'partied' 12,000 years ago
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Your support makes all the difference.Humans were organising "mass banquets" to foster community spirit 12,000 years ago, scientists believe.
A team excavating a burial cave in Galilee, northern Israel, uncovered the remains of 71 tortoises and three wild cattle.
The shells and bones showed evidence of the animals being cooked and butchered for human consumption. The finds were in two hollows linked to burial rituals, said the researchers writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Meat from the tortoises alone could probably have fed around 35 people, according to study leader Dr Natalie Munro, from the University of Connecticut.
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