
African wildcats appear to have been part of the human diet in the Levant 10,000 years ago.
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About 10,000 years ago, foxes and ocelots were an important part of people’s diets in the Western Galilee region of what is now Israel.
Archaeologists have long believed that the abundance of small carnivore bones in early settlements in the Levant was due to fur-harvesting people and symbolic associations such as tooth ornaments. Ta.
But now Shirad Galmore, a student at Tel Aviv University in Israel, and his colleagues have discovered…
(Tag translation) Archeology