About 8,000 years ago in southwestern Bulgaria, around the time agriculture, husbandry and pottery were emerging, people were consuming bone powder.
In a new scholarly paper published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, a team of researchers has sought to unravel the reasons why people would resort to including bone powder in their diet.
The researchers have not yet undertaken DNA testing of the bones, so it is currently unknown whether the bone powder is of human or animal origin.
However, the consumption of human bone powder is not unheard of. In Medieval Europe, people consumed human bone powder for its supposed medicinal properties.
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