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Tango01  | 07 Oct 2022 9:14 p.m. PST |
… Builders Ate Parasite-Infested Meat
"The Stonehenge monument in Wiltshire, England, annually draws more than a million visitors. The Neolithic solar calendar was built with multi-ton freestanding stones and remains a landmark to behold. While its founders are long dead, researchers just unearthed their feces — and found it was full of parasitic worm eggs.
Scientists from the University of Cambridge found the fossilized clumps of feces (or coprolites) in a refuse heap at Durrington Walls. According to LiveScience, this Neolithic settlement 1.7 miles from Stonehenge was home to its builders and their dogs. Evidently, both had eaten tainted animal meat during winter feasts…"
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| Grelber | 08 Oct 2022 11:54 a.m. PST |
Interesting, if a little weird. I suppose information like this helps to gradually build up our understanding of people who lived 4500 years ago, and you never know where an odd tidbit like this might lead. Grelber
Who is going to make sure his hamburger is well done. |
| Stryderg | 08 Oct 2022 3:08 p.m. PST |
Oh. I read the title as "fences". I was wondering how many ancient fences were still around to be studied. |
| Tango01 | 08 Oct 2022 3:09 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 09 Oct 2022 4:27 p.m. PST |
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 Wolfshanza | 11 Oct 2022 10:10 p.m. PST |
Just saw an interesting item on unexplained mysteries. Apparently, according to DNA, the builders were from Anatolia (Turkey) :0 |
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discovers a lost dinosaur.