What did Homo sapiens eat 170,000 years ago? Roasted, supersized land snails
Charred bits of shell at a southern African site reveal the earliest known snail-meal prep
Small groups of people roasted and ate large land snails, much like this modern land snail, at a rock-shelter in southern Africa starting around 170,000 years ago, a new study finds.
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