Monday, 14 October 2019

Bones Filled with Marrow Served as Prehistoric Humans' 'Cans of Soup'

Image courtesy of Dr. Ruth Blasco/AFTAU.



Joel Kontinen


Eating a can or tin of meat isn’t as new as we would subject. When people were assumed to be hunter-gatherers, they did not just eat what they caught, they also reserved some of it for later use.

In a cave in Israel, thought to be at least 400,000 years old, the humans stored “bones packed with fat and tasty, nutrient-rich marrow to crack open and eat later.”

The dates in this context are all wrong.

They “stored bones packed with fat and tasty, nutrient-rich marrow to crack open and eat later.”

The bones were usual as cans, for later use.

The findings were posted in October 9th in the journal Science Advances.

Source:

Weisberger, Mindy. 2019, Bones Filled with Marrow Served as Prehistoric Humans' 'Cans of Soup' Live Science (11 October).