Egg shell fragments reveal that as early as 18,000 years ago, humans on New Guinea may have been hatching a dangerous bird called the cassowary.
Cassowary eggs, like the Southern cassowary one depicted here, have jade-green shells. Archaeologists used them to age human relationships with the birds on the Pacific island of New Guinea.Whether you’ve been chased by a goose or witnessed an ostrich run at top speed, you know birds can sometimes be terrifying. At the top of the list is the cassowary—that clocks in between 4 and 5.6 feet tall.
Turns out, they may have brought them home with them. There are clues that as early as 18,000 years ago, humans in New Guinea were systematically harvesting cassowary eggs, new research shows. The paper, published this week in the journal There’s two hypotheses why: Collectors may have immediately consumed the contents of the egg, as evidenced by cooking burns on the shells, or they may have tried to
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