[SunkenCiv]

The team cooked a whole pig and a chopped-up goat for more than 24 hours in the oven, which was sealed with stones and clay. Credit: Photo courtesy of Andrew McCarthy

[ETL]

I've heard the Woolly Mammoths were yummy!

[Rockpile]

This cannot possibly be true.

We have been informed repeatedly that BBQ was invented by black slaves in the American South, so obviously animal flesh was never consumed before that.

[octex]

At least they understand the difference between grilling and barbequeing. ....Seems most advertisers and Yankees don’t know there’s a difference. ...So many ads show people grilling hot dogs or burgers in the back yard and refer to it as BBQing. ...So wrong.

[R. Scott]

kalua pig?

[Rebelbase]

Don’t you have the BBQ ping list?

[Not gonna take it anymore]

I had neighbors in the LA area years ago who roasted pig in the ground just like this. Very delicious.

They did have a big backyard. LOL

[Pollster1]

A 9,000-year-old barbecue pit was recently discovered at Prastio Mesorotsos, a site in the Diarizos Valley outside of Paphos, which has been almost continuously occupied from the Neolithic era to the present.

That's about when many giant Pleistocene species went extinct, including mammoths, cave bears, cave lions, giant hyena, woolly rhino, etc. It's no wonder they needed a big pit.