7,000-Year-Old Human Meal Discovered in Moroccan Cave Near Casablanca

According to Morocco World News, it is the discovery of the fossilized remains of a 7,000-year-old meal in a cave near Casablanca. Known as the Rhinoceros Cave, it was a living space for the first humans. Today, this cave houses the first evidence of in situ meat processing recorded in Africa.

The scientific analysis shows traces of butchery and human tooth marks on the fossilized bones of herbivorous animals, including the gazelle, zebra and alcelaphine (like the wildebeest), providing evidence of human consumption and meat processing, explains the Nature magazine. Similarly, the report indicates that humans used sharp knives to remove the flesh from the animals’ leg bones.

In 1991, a research team composed of Moroccans and French had discovered the Rhinoceros Cave in the Oulad Hamida 1 quarry, formerly called the Thomas 3 quarry, only 1 km from the Atlantic coast.