Big eats from a 12,000-year-old burial

Communal feasting may have existed prior to farming’s invention

Nacho-fueled Super Bowl bashes and multi-course wedding banquets may hark back to a time when preagricultural people devoured wild animal meat at their comrades’ gravesides.

EAT, STAY, LEAVE Researchers say that at least 35 people held a ceremonial feast in this cave around 12,000 years ago.