A large earthen pot was loaded individually with pig bone or chicken soup.
Instead, to their complete surprise, they dug up the ample remains of pig bones.
Made of chicken, pig bone, onion, and ginger, the hot soup tastes spicy and fresh.
Significantly, no pig bones have been uncovered, suggesting that the city was not Philistine.
Typically, the soup is prepared by boiling pig bones and dried achonives for hours in order to bring out the flavor.
While some archaeologists interpret the absence of pig bones from the highland sites as an indicator of ethnicity, this is not certain.
"There appear to be pig bones in there."
Earlier in the day, fresh tiger droppings laced with telltale pig bones were spotted along the road.
We Sani people cook our meat with pig bones in it.
Cook fleshy pig bones in water about 30 minutes.