Feasting at Philoteria

CULINARY ARCHAEOLOGY: Feast of snails and pig sheds life on Hellenist life in ancient Galilee. “If we look at food remains in Jewish settlements from the same period, we see very different species,” Pines, whose expertise is in the field of zoo-archaeology, told the Post (Rossella Tercatin, Jerusalem Post).

I love trash pits.

The site is Tel Bet Yerah, ancient Philoteria.

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