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Jun 1, 2010 · It must have been the first all-you-can-eat sushi bar. About 1.95 million years ago, a group of early human ancestors assembled on the shores of an ancient lake or river in Kenya and gathered fish and other aquatic animals from the shore and shallow water. Using stone tools, they deboned a catfish, eviscerated a turtle, and defleshed the foot ...
Oct 17, 2007 · Researchers excavating a cave on the southern coast of South Africa discovered a bowl's worth of edible shellfish dating back to about 165,000 years ago, when Africa was colder and drier—pushing ...
Jun 16, 2015 · Peter Spooner delves into the British Library collections to find out. Anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) have been eating seafood for at least 164,000 years. Caves in South Africa contain the very earliest evidence for humans eating shellfish, as well as evidence for humans eating shallow-water fish 140,000 years ago 1.
Jun 25, 2024 · This article was originally published with the title “ What Did Humans Evolve to Eat? ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 331 No. 1 (July/August 2024), p. 22 doi:10.1038 ...
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History of seafood. Appearance. Various foods depicted in an Egyptian burial chamber, including fish, c. 1400 BC. The harvesting and consuming of seafoods are ancient practices that may date back to at least the Upper Paleolithic period which dates to between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. [ 1 ] Isotopic analysis of the skeletal remains of ...
By starting to eat calorie-dense meat and marrow instead of the low-quality plant diet of apes, our direct ancestor, Homo erectus, took in enough extra energy at each meal to help fuel a bigger ...
Dec 17, 2019 · By Guy Crosby. December 17, 2019. Clearly, the controlled use of fire to cook food was an extremely important element in the biological and social evolution of early humans, whether it started 400,000 or 2 million years ago. The lack of physical evidence suggests early humans did little to modify the control and use of fire for cooking for ...
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