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Ancient
humans held mass banquets to foster brotherhood
Thursday, September 02, 2010 04:58:04 PM,
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Humans were into organising mass banquets to promote fellow
feelings some 12,000 years ago.
A team stumbled on the remains of at least 71 tortoises and three
wild cattle, while excavating a burial cave in Galilee, northern
Israel.
The shells and bones showed traces of the animals being butchered
and cooked for human consumption, reports the Daily Mail.
Tortoise shells were placed under, around and on top of the
remains of a ritually buried shaman, according to the journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Meat from the tortoise alone could probably have fed around 35
people," said study leader Natalie Munro from the University of
Connecticut in the US.
"This is the first solid evidence that supports the idea that
communal feasts were already occurring - perhaps with some
frequency - at the beginning of the transition to agriculture,"
she said.
Feasts served as community builders at a time of rising social
tension, said Munro.
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