Posted on 08/22/2019 5:50:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
New research published today in the journal Parasitology shows how the prehistoric inhabitants of a settlement in the freshwater marshes of eastern England were infected by intestinal worms caught from foraging for food in the lakes and waterways around their homes.
The Bronze Age settlement at Must Farm, located near what is now the fenland city of Peterborough, consisted of wooden houses built on stilts above the water. Wooden causeways connected islands in the marsh, and dugout canoes were used to travel along water channels.
The village burnt down in a catastrophic fire around 3,000 years ago, with artefacts from the houses preserved in mud below the waterline, including food, cloth, and jewellery. The site has been called "Britain's Pompeii".
Also preserved in the surrounding mud were waterlogged "coprolites" -- pieces of human faeces -- that have now been collected and analysed by archaeologists at the University of Cambridge. They used microscopy techniques to detect ancient parasite eggs within the faeces and surrounding sediment...
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...
“Giant kidney worms can reach up to a metre in length.”
That’ll keep me awake tonight.
Yes but it's a different day.
I resemble that remark.
“And his hair was perfect.”
The Paleo diet, Atkins or the Fecal Intestinal Worm diet?
Choose wisely.
Or, tune in to Fox when Karl Rove is speaking...
Makes no sense.
Read other versions of this article which did not make this statement.
Regards,
Imagine writing your doctoral theses about feces.
Enhancing that law school application.
Think of the opportunities in San Fagsicko today!
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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