Key Highlights
- New research has revealed that ancient people in southern Arabia dined on an apex predator — sharks.
- The study, recently published in the journal Antiquity, centers on a tomb in Wadi Nafūn, an archaeological site in Oman that dates back to the 5th millennium B. C. In a January news release from the Archaeological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ARUP) in Prague, officials said the megalithic tomb provides "detailed evidence to date of the diet and mobility of Neolithic communities in the region." ANCIENT BERRY MAY IMPROVE BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION — MOST PEOPLE OVERLOOK IT IN THE FREEZER AISLE Archaeologists have worked at the site since 2020, navigating an arid climate that has preserved very few organic remains.
- As a result, they collected tooth samples and analyzed them in the Czech Republic.
- New research suggests Neolithic communities in southern Arabia may have relied on shark meat as a major food source.
- (ARUP)Anthropologist Jiří Šneberger said the team used stable isotope analysis to reconstruct the ancient people's diets — which suggested a likelihood of shark meat, the release noted.
