Shell shocked: Cavemen ate tortoises
While cavemen have a reputation for chasing saber-toothed tigers and hunting wooly mammoths, they were more likely to take home a tortoise for dinner.
Experts have found the remains of more than 500 tortoises in caves along the Costa Blanca in Spain, suggesting cavemen could have been a lazy as modern men.
They know they were eaten rather than kept as pets because there was evidence that they had been roasted and many had human toothmarks and cracked shells.
But the Spanish Fred Flintstones did not live on tortoise alone, also in the cave were pigs, deer, cattle and goats.
Paleontologists from the University of Tarragona in Spain believe the finds help shed more light on the lives of our cave dwelling ancestors.
