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Tango01 | 27 Aug 2014 12:18 p.m. PST |
…earlier than previously thought. "Palaeolithic inhabitants of modern-day Spain may have eaten snails 10,000 years earlier than their Mediterranean neighbors, according to a study published August 20, 2014 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Javier Fernandez-Lopez de Pablo from Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social and colleagues. Snails were widespread in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene, but it is still unknown when and how they were incorporated into human diets. The authors of this study found land snail shell remains from ~30,000 years ago at a recently discovered site in Cova de la Barriada, Spain. To better understand if the inhabitants may have eaten snails, the researchers investigated patterns of land snail selection, consumption, and accumulation at the site, and then analyzed the shells' decay, fossilization process, composition, and age at death by measuring the shell size. link Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
goragrad | 27 Aug 2014 1:50 p.m. PST |
Easiest way to check would be to look for traces of garlic and melted butter… |
Tango01 | 28 Aug 2014 11:22 a.m. PST |
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BelgianRay | 28 Aug 2014 4:54 p.m. PST |
Right goragad, he must have meant "ecargots". |
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