New arrivals came from the Caucasus region 4,900 years ago and changed the character of a village, study shows

In a prehistoric hamlet by the Sea of Galilee, the local people caught and ate of the lakefish: carp, tilapia including the famed Saint Peter’s Fish, and an occasional catfish, as they had done since time immemorial. And then about 4,900 years ago, small groups of people who had been slowly moving southward from the Caucasus made their way to the town, leaving behind archaeological signals in the form of unique pottery, a different arrangement of their homes – and a strikingly different pattern of consumption, archaeologists say. They did not particularly like fish, it seems.