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The Ancient City Where People Decided To Eat Chickens
JULY 20, 2015 4:06 PM ET
DAN CHARLES
Lee Perry-Gal measures chicken long bones at the zooarchaeology lab, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa.
Courtesy of Guy Bar-Oz
An ancient, abandoned city in Israel has revealed part of the story of how the chicken turned into one of the pillars of the modern Western diet.
The city, now an archaeological site, is called Maresha. It flourished in the Hellenistic period from 400 to 200 BCE.
"The site is located on a trade route between Jerusalem and Egypt," says Lee Perry-Gal, a doctoral student in the department of archaeology at the University of Haifa. As a result, it was a meeting place of cultures, "like New York City," she says.
Not too long ago, the archaeologists unearthed something unusual: a collection of chicken bones.
"This was very, very surprising," says Perry-Gal.
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The Ancient City Where People Decided To Eat Chickens
JULY 20, 2015 4:06 PM ET
DAN CHARLES
Lee Perry-Gal measures chicken long bones at the zooarchaeology lab, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa.
Courtesy of Guy Bar-Oz
An ancient, abandoned city in Israel has revealed part of the story of how the chicken turned into one of the pillars of the modern Western diet.
The city, now an archaeological site, is called Maresha. It flourished in the Hellenistic period from 400 to 200 BCE.
"The site is located on a trade route between Jerusalem and Egypt," says Lee Perry-Gal, a doctoral student in the department of archaeology at the University of Haifa. As a result, it was a meeting place of cultures, "like New York City," she says.
Not too long ago, the archaeologists unearthed something unusual: a collection of chicken bones.
"This was very, very surprising," says Perry-Gal.
Continue reading at:
The Ancient City Where People Decided To Eat Chickens The Salt NPR
