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Prehistoric man enjoyed roasted tortoise appetizers, Israeli archaeologist says

Professor Avi Gopher (L) and Dr. Ran Barkai, researchers from Tel Aviv University's Institute of Archaeology, stand at Qesem cave, an excavation site near the town of Rosh Ha'ayin, east of Tel Aviv,

Prehistoric man enjoyed roasted tortoise appetizers, Israeli archaeologist says

Barkai helped lead a research team who found 400,000-year-old tortoise shells and bones in a cave in Israel that showed hunter-gatherers butchered and cooked tortoises as part of a diet dominated by large animals and vegetation.

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