African wildcats seem to have been part of the human diet in the Levant 10,000 years ago NSP-RF/Alamy
About 10,000 years ago, foxes and wildcats made up a notable part of people’s diets in what is now Western Galilee in Israel.
Archaeologists have long attributed the abundance of small carnivore bones in early Levant settlements to people harvesting fur and to like tooth ornaments.
But now, , while at Tel Aviv University in Israel, and her colleagues have found…
