Before there was Uber Eats, there was 'catch a 4-foot lizard and hope it doesn't catch you back.'
Ancient Middle Easterners Loved Dining on Lizards and Snakes
A new study in PNAS reveals that Natufian hunter-gatherers in Israel, 15,000 to 11,700 years ago, regularly dined on lizards and snakes—over a third of the animal bones at el-Wad Terrace were reptiles. The menu included legless glass lizards, whip snakes, and even a few venomous vipers, alongside gazelles and small mammals.
Source: Ancient Middle Easterners Loved Dining on Lizards and Snakes — Nautilus
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