ARCHAEOLOGY:
Israel dig provides clues on how feasting became an important ritual. Evidence from a 12,000-year-old archaeological site in country’s north shows communally shared meals have long been vital components of human ceremony (Natalie Munro, Times of Israel). This research is considerably more substantial than my cheeky header implies. I have commented further on it
here.
This article, by one of the excavators, summarizes the story about the grave of the Neolithic female "shaman" (?) found in Israel. It also puts the story into a wider anthropological and archaeological context.
It looks as though feasting together has always been important to human beings.
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