"Iron Age salt miners ate blue cheese and beer" Topic
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| Tango01 | 20 Dec 2021 8:54 p.m. PST |
"Fungi found in ancient feces recovered from the Hallstatt salt mines in Austria are the earliest evidence of people eating blue cheese and drinking beer in Iron Age Europe. The salt mountains of Hallstatt in the Eastern Alps have been mined since at least the 14th century B.C. and mining has been continuous ever since. Excavations have unearthed multiple layers dense with evidence of mining activity during the early Iron Age (800-400 B.C.). Objects include wooden tools, fur, hide, wool and textile fragments, ropes and beautifully preserved human feces. These paleofeces, rapidly desiccated in the dry, perpetually cool and salty air of the underground mines, can be radiocarbon dated and analyzed to discover what people ate, what parasites they had, details about the microflora and fauna of their digestive system. This study looked at three samples of paleofeces from the Bronze Age and Iron Age layers of the Hallstatt mine, and one sample from the 18th century. Even though the samples had been excavated as far as back as 1983, researchers were able to retrieve DNA and proteins that were almost entirely undamaged thanks to the rapid desiccation of the paleofeces in the salt mine environment…"
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Frederick  | 21 Dec 2021 7:07 a.m. PST |
Sensible chaps – iron mining gives you a powerful thirst |
| Tango01 | 21 Dec 2021 3:24 p.m. PST |
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| JMcCarroll | 21 Dec 2021 6:17 p.m. PST |
Wow the smell must have been…. Disgusting! |
| Zephyr1 | 21 Dec 2021 10:11 p.m. PST |
I imagine so; Blue cheese is nasty… |
| skipper John | 22 Dec 2021 10:38 a.m. PST |
Blue cheese and beer… I'm surprised there was any substance to it at all! |
| Tango01 | 22 Dec 2021 3:33 p.m. PST |
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| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 24 Dec 2021 12:12 a.m. PST |
That sounds pretty good, actually, although I'll want some bread or crackers or something with it, and maybe cucumbers. |
| Tango01 | 24 Dec 2021 3:23 p.m. PST |
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