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Ancient feces reveal how 'marsh diet' left Bronze Age Fen folk infected with parasites

Credit: Marissa Ledger


Credit: Marissa Ledger

1 posted on 08/22/2019 5:50:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

that’s Really interesting


2 posted on 08/22/2019 5:54:17 PM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: SunkenCiv

I saw a program om “The History Channel” about the largest battle ever fought in Britain.

Most people including me had never heard of it. They examined some of the bones etc. from the mass grave.

A few things surprised me. First they had excellent teeth. Second their diet was better than ours. They somehow calculated that from testing bones.


5 posted on 08/22/2019 5:57:05 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: SunkenCiv

“In the Journal Parasitology”

Huh.

A magazine about parasites.

Bernie Sanders is an editor.


6 posted on 08/22/2019 6:03:09 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SunkenCiv

So they were digging through crap?

Enhancing that law school application.


7 posted on 08/22/2019 6:04:46 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SunkenCiv

These pics look like the parasites, not the feces.


8 posted on 08/22/2019 6:05:09 PM PDT by rfp1234 (NBC: Putting the TURD in Saturday.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s far worse in San Francisco.


11 posted on 08/22/2019 6:06:44 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s far worse in San Francisco.


12 posted on 08/22/2019 6:06:50 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: SunkenCiv
Just random question: why does eastern England have freshwater (as opposed to saltwater) marshes? I know that historically they were periodically inundated by seawater; maybe even in more recent times, during big storms. Why are they not salty?

Is it because of high rainfall in the upland areas, causing a whole lot of freshwater pouring down toward the North Sea and the English Channel?

Is it affected by possibly (I'm guessing) great rivers like the Rhine and others, also dumping water into the North Sea and the English Channel, making them less saline (?) than the water of the open Atlantic?

Someone enlighten me, please.

15 posted on 08/22/2019 6:13:29 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (I'm here to learn.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Marsh! Marsh! Marsh!


17 posted on 08/22/2019 6:31:20 PM PDT by Libloather (END CLIMATE CHANGE!)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Giant kidney worms can reach up to a metre in length.”

That’ll keep me awake tonight.


21 posted on 08/22/2019 6:43:40 PM PDT by moovova
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To: SunkenCiv

The Paleo diet, Atkins or the Fecal Intestinal Worm diet?

Choose wisely.


25 posted on 08/22/2019 7:10:11 PM PDT by TheNext (Diversity: Darker Replaces Lighter)
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To: SunkenCiv
Disposal of human and animal waste into the water around the settlement likely prevented direct faecal pollution of the fenlanders' food, and so prevented infection from roundworm -- the eggs of which have been found at Bronze Age sites across Europe.

Makes no sense.

Read other versions of this article which did not make this statement.

Regards,

27 posted on 08/22/2019 8:32:57 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Imagine writing your doctoral theses about feces.


28 posted on 08/22/2019 8:44:25 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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