Earliest evidence of snail-eating found in Spain

Earliest evidence of snail-eating found in Spain
Tarragona, Spain (UPI) Aug 21, 2014 - Apparently, humans have been eating snails for some 30,000 years. The Paleolithic humans on the east coast of Spain may not have been dousing their escargot in butter and garlic, but they were collecting, cooking and eating snails roughly 10,000 years before any of their Mediterranean neighbors. Archaeologists digging at an ancient artifact-rich site on Spain's Apparently, humans have b ... more

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