Posted on 06/28/2020 12:17:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Human communities in the Levant at this time were known as Natufian. They were primarily hunters and foragers and are considered the first non-nomadic society; the semi-sedentary habits of Natufian culture were likely a precursor to humans settling down and becoming farmers.
At the el-Wad Terrace settlement, the site was densely layered with animal remains, of which "a high percentage" belonged to lizards and snakes, the researchers reported in a new study, published online June 10 in the journal Scientific Reports.
The quantity of squamate bones at the site was astonishing; that alone hinted at human consumption as a possible explanation, said lead study author Ma'ayan Lev, a doctoral candidate in archaeology at the University of Haifa in Israel.
"I have worked on various zooarchaeological assemblages and have not encountered such large numbers before," Lev told Live Science in an email.
Nearly 3,000 squamate remains — mostly vertebrae — were collected at el-Wad, making up about 33% of all the animal remains at the site. The most common squamate species was the legless European glass lizard (Pseudopus apodus), followed by the large whip snake (Dolichophis jugularis) the eastern Montpellier snake (Malpolon insignitus) and the common viper (Daboia palaestinae).
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What do glass lizards taste like? Just asping for a friend.
Chicken
Indians ate bark in the winter to survive- lizards woulda seemed like a thanksgiving meal to hem I’m sure
She has the face of an iguana.
Leni
Good God! And to think somebody probably got paid real money for this “revelation”. OF COURSE THEY ATE SNAKES AND LIZARDS! They ate any damn thing they could find.
If that's what it takes.
“Good God! And to think somebody probably got paid real money for this “revelation”. OF COURSE THEY ATE SNAKES AND LIZARDS! They ate any damn thing they could find.”
IMO archaeology is one of those fields that produces essentially zero useful information. It exists mainly to satisfy the investigators idle curiosity. Amazing that they get funding from anyone.
Fired Lizard on a stick has been at every state fair forever.... : )
When you’re hungry, you eat anything that’s slightly slower and/or dumber Than you.
Which explains vegetarians.
Why is this news. I have eaten snakes and alligators and was born in 1948. It really does taste like chicken. Alligator needs much more time in the oven to be tender. It does taste good if properly prepared.
I think we could have posited that w/o the “proof”.
Meat is meat.
Pass the butter please....
I wonder when butter was first being made.
I’ve eaten rattlesnake while stationed in Oklahoma - attended one of the rattlesnake roundups and it was on the menu...it actually does taste like chicken - just a little bit stringier.
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