Pot Residues Lift the Lid on Ancient Indus Valley Food Choices

Ancient Origins ^ | 9 December, 2020 | Alicia McDermott

[Carriage Hill]

Definitely a reason for decimation and die-off.

[Darksheare]

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.

[Carriage Hill]

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...

[Darksheare]

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.

[Carriage Hill]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks afip. This may explain why no one has yet cracked their writing system. ;^)

[SunkenCiv]

Then they’ll stone you and then they’ll come back again.

[SunkenCiv]

Oh, *pots”...

[COBOL2Java]

Cheech: "Hey, what'cha doin', man?"
Chong: "Just watchin' TV, man"
Cheech: "Watchin' TV? What you watching, man?"
Chong: "I don't know. It's a movie about Indians, but it's really boring, man"
Cheech: "Indians?" [looks at TV]

Cheech: "Hey, man. That's not a movie, man. That's a test pattern, man"
Chong: "Oh. Far out, man!"

[Alas Babylon!]

You make it sound like an ancient government response to COVID-19.

[SunkenCiv]

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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[metesky]

Fool's Jamaican Blue Mountain / 8oz $65.25

And here I am mocking people for paying $2.80 a cup at Drunkin Dognuts.

[Monkey Face]

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

[Carriage Hill]

$210/lb in Japan.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Apparently the letters CBD OIL stamped into the ceramic was not clue enough...