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To: wyattearp

He thinks he is a pharao.

btw, what cheaper sources of protein was there?
It was either fish or beef, you can't tell the quality of the beef so it may be the lousiest piece of meat.

I suppose they also had birds and eggs to eat, but perhaps beef was cheaper than bird. I don't know any other animal protein sources they ate.


39 posted on 03/21/2006 11:42:37 AM PST by S0122017
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To: S0122017
btw, what cheaper sources of protein was there?

Haven't actually run a cost analysis (and I'm not really sure how), so I may have been a bit premature. I seem to remember that the cattle had to be brought from quite a distance, and were being butchered on-site. They did find a lot of fish remains as well, but the amount of cattle surprised the researchers. It's just not something that was generally fed to slaves, at least not on a regular basis.

I'll try to dig up a bit more later today. Gotta run.

41 posted on 03/21/2006 11:53:24 AM PST by wyattearp (The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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