Paleolithic diet may have included snails 10,000 years earlier than previously thought

Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 02:01 in Biology & Nature

Paleolithic inhabitants of modern-day Spain may have eaten snails 10,000 years earlier than their Mediterranean neighbors. Snails were widespread in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene, but it is still unknown when and how they were incorporated into human diets.

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