Cavemen dined on TORTOISE 400,000 years ago, new research reveals

Roast tortoise was on the menu for cavemen 400,000 years ago, according to new research. Tortoises were a staple of early Paleolithic people's diets, remains dug up in an ancient cave have revealed.  they formed a staple part of early Paleolithic people's diets . It had been thought they mostly ate large game and vegetables with turtle, now protected under EU law, off the menu even then. Now archaelogists have found specimens of the creature all over Quesem Cave, near Tel Aviv, Israel, and at different levels showing they were eaten throughout 200,000 years of human habitation. The cave was only unearthed in 2001 and excavations are continuing to shed new light on our primitive ancestors' lifestyle.=READ MORE -http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/cavemen-dined-tortoise-400000-years-7294540