Thanks afip. This may explain why no one has yet cracked their writing system. ;^)
Posted on 12/09/2020 4:22:44 PM PST by BenLurkin
Researchers are getting a glimpse into ancient Indus Valley food choices by analyzing residues on ceramic pots from urban and rural settlements during the Mature Harappan period (c.2600/2500–1900 BC). It is a landmark study because this is the first multi-site analysis of fats and oils on pottery from the Indus Valley civilization. The results enable us to see and compare the popularity of some of the ancient Indus Valley foods across settlements and over time.
The researchers analyzed lipid residues on the pottery to find out what plant or animal products, such as fatty acids, remained and could provide them with chemical clues about ancient Indus Valley foods. Isotopic analysis allowed them to also discern between the fatty acids left by meat and milk. The analyses showed researchers what was cooked in different pots. In the press release, Dr. Suryanarayan explained the importance of studying these materials in the region:
The researchers’ analyses of lipid residue on pottery from the various sites shows that there was an abundance of animal products in ancient Indus Valley cuisine. The researchers found evidence for the Indus Valley people eating the meat of pigs, cattle, buffalo, sheep, and goats, and also consuming dairy products from the ancient ceramic vessels.
(Excerpt) Read more at ancient-origins.net ...
Definitely a reason for decimation and die-off.
Wish we could detect such things.
Maybe in the future they can find if there was some contagion running havoc the same way they studied the contents of the jars, using new tech and techniques.
We can. And they have.
They detected the “Spanish Flu” genome/DNA, which killed many millions worldwide, in graves, from exhuming bodies... but that was only a hundred-or-so years ago. The P4 Bio-Labs have samples of it and experiment on it. But thousands of years is a whole ‘nother matter.
It scary what they have in this bio-labs; enough to wipe the Earth sterile... except for termites, crickets and demonKKKrats. Heh...
More difficult to do without preserved soft tissues.
Maybe the teeth, marrow, or growth plates on the femur could have detectable traces of any contagion.
But mostly any disease would have to be inferred from changes to the bones themselves as in the case of syphilis causing deformations.
Hoping the tech improves enough to make it vastly easier.
Teeth are the #1 carrier of ancient DNA and contagion, but the 1918 Spanish Flu samples had lots of available sample: skin, bone, teeth etc.
Thanks afip. This may explain why no one has yet cracked their writing system. ;^)
Then they’ll stone you and then they’ll come back again.
Oh, *pots”...
Cheech: "Hey, man. That's not a movie, man. That's a test pattern, man"
Chong: "Oh. Far out, man!"
You make it sound like an ancient government response to COVID-19.
The remains that have been found appear to have been hasty, which of course doesn’t rule out mass graves by their killers. If memory serves, the early literature describing the time of the inward migration of the Aryans (now anachronistically denied by political hacks) said Harappan cities were filled with dead.
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And here I am mocking people for paying $2.80 a cup at Drunkin Dognuts.
I don’t even know how to address this.
How about, “A watched pot never boils?”
Or, “Eat every potato and pee in your plate?”
;o])
‘Face
$210/lb in Japan.
Apparently the letters CBD OIL stamped into the ceramic was not clue enough...
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