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Friday, June 12, 2020

University of Haifa - Israeli researchers find first evidence ancient humans ate snakes, lizards [The Times of Israel, 12 June 2020]

Title:
Israeli researchers find first evidence ancient humans ate snakes, lizards: University of Haifa archaeologists say residents of Mount Carmel snacked on reptiles some 15,000 years ago, possibly as part of transition to sedentary lifestyle

Author:
Luke Tress

Published:
The Times of Israel, 12 June 2020
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-researchers-find-first-evidence-ancient-humans-ate-snakes-lizards/

From the article:
Israeli researchers have found evidence that ancient humans ate snakes and lizards as a regular part of their diet, in what they said was a first finding of its kind.

See also this scholarly article published in Scientific Reports, 2020:
Squamate bone taphonomy: A new experimental framework and its application to the Natufian zooarchaeological record by Ma'ayan Lev, Mina Weinstein-Evron & Reuven Yeshurun