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Ancient feces reveal how 'marsh diet' left Bronze Age Fen folk infected with parasites
EurekAlert! ^
| Thursday, August 15, 2019
| University of Cambridge
Posted on 08/22/2019 5:50:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
“Giant kidney worms can reach up to a metre in length.”
That’ll keep me awake tonight.
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posted on
08/22/2019 6:43:40 PM PDT
by
moovova
To: PGR88
It's always the same old shitYes but it's a different day.
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posted on
08/22/2019 6:54:36 PM PDT
by
JPG
(MAGA!)
To: blueunicorn6
To: Rebelbase
“And his hair was perfect.”
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posted on
08/22/2019 7:01:53 PM PDT
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Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: SunkenCiv
The Paleo diet, Atkins or the Fecal Intestinal Worm diet?
Choose wisely.
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posted on
08/22/2019 7:10:11 PM PDT
by
TheNext
(Diversity: Darker Replaces Lighter)
To: blueunicorn6
Or, tune in to Fox when Karl Rove is speaking...
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posted on
08/22/2019 7:22:47 PM PDT
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rfp1234
(NBC: Putting the TURD in Saturday.)
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,
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posted on
08/22/2019 8:32:57 PM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: SunkenCiv
Imagine writing your doctoral theses about feces.
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posted on
08/22/2019 8:44:25 PM PDT
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The Great RJ
("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
To: blueunicorn6
So they were digging through crap? Enhancing that law school application.
Think of the opportunities in San Fagsicko today!
To: yarddog
british aristocracy teeth went bad sometime after 1500 with the introduction of sugar from the west indies. sugar rotted the teeth of lower classes as it became more inexpensive over the centuries. for the first couple hundred years or so it was an upper class luxury.
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08/23/2019 7:33:58 AM PDT
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ckilmer
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