Nacho-fueled Super Bowl bashes and multi-course wedding banquets may hark back to a time when preagricultural people devoured wild animal meat at their comrades’ gravesides.
EAT, STAY, LEAVE Researchers say that at least 35 people held a ceremonial feast in this cave around 12,000 years ago. Naftali Hilger
CAVE CUISINE Tortoise shells such as this one, excavated from an elderly woman’s grave, offer clues to a possible prehistoric feast.
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