[SunkenCiv]

Residues found within the round-bottomed vessel suggest it was used to process meat stew.

Artist's impression of Bronze Age Thames-side farming on the Greenwich Peninsula.

[BenLurkin]

Is this about the same time that the circular earthworks became common in what is now England? I often wondered if they were part fort and part cattle corral.

[Hieronymus]

You left out the best and most inaccurate part:

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The pottery features 436 fragments from at least 24 separate vessels. Some had been decorated by pressing fingertips or roe deer hooves into the clay – revealing that, even at this early date, people cared about the look as well as the function of their tableware.

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Even at that early date SOME people cared about the look

“Honey, I want the roe-deer hoof ware”

“The generic will cost us two skins less, and works just as well”

“I’m the one who has to slave away all day . . . and besides Olga’s husband got her . . .”

[bitt]

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[colorado tanker]

Shoreditch was outside London, north of Bishopsgate. It early on acquired a suburban quality as Shoreditch High Street was part of Ermine Street, the Roman road from London to Lincoln and York.

Of course, 5,000 years ago the area would have been pastoral.

[17th Miss Regt]

The study of long-expired milk fats and other microscopic food remains confirms they once held cattle and sheep or goat dairy products, including butter and cheese. Such foodstuffs could easily be stored during winter months.

"He said, Blessed are the cheesemakers,...""