Ancient humans may have cooked and eaten snails 170,000 years ago.

Ancient humans may have cooked and eaten snails 170,000 years ago.

The shell of a snail of the Achatinidae household is just like these believed to have been cooked on the Border Collapse South Africa.

Deniz Wojcieszak

Damaged shell fragments present in a collapse South Africa gave researchers the earliest proof that prehistoric people fried and ate snails.

Different analysis has pointed to snail consumption in Europe about 30,000 years in the past and in Africa about 40,000 years in the past. “There is a huge hole from that to our findings,” he says. Deniz Wojcieszakwho’s doing the brand new job…

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