Snake bones with flint cuts show Mount Carmel settlers ate reptiles 15,000 years ago

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Around 15,000 years ago, the way of life of human communities in the southern Levant underwent a fundamental change. Groups of hunter-gatherers, who until then had been nomadic, reduced their mobility and established small, permanent settlements for the first time.