Nobody likes badly cooked cow 🐄 💩 Ancient faeces suggests that Stonehenge builders ate badly cooked cow offal during epic winter feasts.
builders ate badly cooked cow offal during epic winter feasts.
A team of archaeologists led by the University of Cambridge analysed 19 pieces of faeces which had been preserved at the settlement for more than 4,500 years.The researchers suggest this is the earliest evidence for intestinal parasites in the UK where the host species that produced the faeces has also been identified.
‘This is the first time intestinal parasites have been recovered from Neolithic Britain, and to find them in the environment of Stonehenge is really something,’ said lead author Dr Piers Mitchell, from Cambridge’s Department of Archaeology.
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