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

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.

Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-08-snake-bones-flint-mount-carmel.html)