April
11
/ 2021
Do not ever try this at home, but it looks like Bronze Age dogs were vegetarians! Well, according to a study of protein in 3,000-year-old canine bones that is. During the Neolithic period, hunters began settling at seasonal fishing and hunting stations and set about farming. Settling at one location all year round meant that people’s diets shifted from almost all meats to mostly plants and cereals. A new study seems to suggest that by the Bronze Age, the diets of pet dogs also flipped upside down, from juicy cuts of giant cat leg, to bland cereals. A new analysis of dog remains unearthed in Spain, dating to between 1,300 and 550 BC, has shown that dogs ate virtually no
