People gathered for great meat feasts at end of British bronze age, study shows Evidence of millions of animal bones at sites in West Country and Surrey points to ‘age of feasting’ These days, revellers converge on the West Country from all parts of the UK and beyond to take...

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Guests at a feast in Iran’s Zagros Mountains 11,000 years ago brought wild boars from all across the land Humans have feasted since the dawn of agriculture – but a new find suggests the practice of bringing exotic food to a communal gathering is even older.

"By examining the growth patterns and chemical signatures inside the tooth enamel of these boars, we found at least some of them had been brought to the site from a substantial distance away, transported over difficult terrain."
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