Frog legs, a typically French gourmet dish, were in fact served in Western Europe more than 5,000 years ago, according to new archaeological evidence.
The site of Kutná Hora-Denemark, a hill fort east of Prague, has revealed the remains of 893 frog bones, providing evidence that the Czechs ate frog legs as early as the Neolithic period.
“The discovery shows that still we don’t know everything about human diet in the past. Small bones of small vertebrates such as frogs can be missed in archaeological excavations,” René Kyselý, an archaeologist at the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of the Sciences of the Czech Republic, told Discovery News.
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