Posted on 03/28/2020 8:19:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Clay pots? Wooden spoons? Copper pots? Silver forks? What materials has man used for making kitchen utensils throughout history? A new study now sheds light on the use of kitchen utensils made of copper...
The research team has analyzed bones from 553 skeletons that are between 1200 and 200 years old. They all come from nine, now abandoned cemeteries in Jutland, Denmark and Northern Germany. The skeletons are today kept at Schloss Gottorf in Schleswig, Germany and at the University of Southern Denmark...
It is different with the high concentrations of copper now revealed to have been ingested by our predecessors in the Viking Age and the Medieval Times. Much of this copper must have come from the kitchen utensils with which the daily meals were prepared, the researchers believe.
One possibility is that the copper pots were scraped by metal knives, releasing copper particles, and that these particles were ingested with the food.
At SDU, more than 15,000 skeletons from the Viking Age and the Middle Ages are stored in a warehouse. They are used for research. School classes and others with an interest in biological anthropology are welcome to visit.
Or maybe copper was dissolved and mixed with food, if the pot was used for storing or cooking acidic foods.
The bones show us that people consumed tiny portions of copper every day throughout their lives. We can also see that entire cities have been doing this for hundreds of years. In Ribe, the inhabitants did this for 1000 years, says Kaare Lund Rasmussen.
Apparently, the copper intake was at no time so great that it became toxic. But the researchers can't say for sure.
(Excerpt) Read more at sdu.dk ...
wilson's disease
Doesn’t copper kill certain bad bacteria and viruses?
Also copper kills Jimmy Cagney.
“More than 15,000 skeletons.....are stored there”
My Dad collected coins.
To each his own I guess.
Maybe that's just where the losers got piled during the Viking heyday. :^)
Wasn’t that lead?
Yes, and the bacteria and viruses holler out, "you'll never take me alive, copper!"
I thought it was a dirty, double-crossin’ rat!
“TOP OF THE WORLD, MA! TOP OF THE WORLD!”
Wilson’s disease is genetic, not from chronic copper exposure alone. Those folks cooking all their food in copper pots likely didn’t have many food borne illnesses.
Tom Hanks disease did me in.
analyzes is a verb form, 3rd person singular present indicative.
Spock and the other Vulcans have blood based on copper rather than iron, hence the green tint.
It’s a shame the author of the headline isn’t here, you could scold him or her.
Yes, I included the search link because I’d made a wild guess that most people have never heard of it, also, there were no pics in the article.
LOL Hanks is such a dips#it.
I clicked through and I see that Birgitte Svennevig, or some editor, is responsible, not you. You were faithfully copying the supplied title. Sorry, if you felt I was critical of you.
Your handle intrigues: SunkenCiv. How exactly did your arrive at it?
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