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Earliest Humans Put a Shrimp on the Barbie

'Mother of all' ice age survivors roasted shellfish at the beach

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 18, 2007 1:45 AM CDT

(Newser) – Remnants of one of the earliest known human settlements, possibly the community from which all modern people are descended, have been discovered on the South African coast. The band of humans survived 164,000 years ago on cooked shellfish and the occasional whale, and wore...   Read full story »

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