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For farmers, feasts were a very important part of life.
People would sometimes travel for long distances and take part in grand ceremonies, before stuffing their Stone Age faces with a LoT of food and drink.
At a settlement called Durrington Walls, which is two miles away from Stonehenge, more than 38,000 discarded animal bones were found – 90% from pigs, and the rest mainly from cattle. That’s a lot of bacon butties and beef burgers!
As there are no written records detailing what people ate, those brainy archaeologists have to use other methods of finding out info. Methods like peering at very old PoO! Well, someone has to do it.
When it came to the Bronze Age, things were slightly different. The change in climate to milder weather – think of it as the Nice Age rather than the Ice Age – meant that MaHoOsIvE hairy elephants and rhinos were no more.
While people still hunted, keeping animals and growing crops on farms was how they got most of their food. For your dinner you might have sat down to sheep meat, or, if you were very lucky, red deer, pike or wIlD bOaR (hairy pigs with tusks) that had been hunted.
FANCY THAT!
Mineralised lumps of 4,000-year-old human poo found at Durrington Walls contained tiny remains of food that allowed scientists to work out what that person ate. Just think – some lucky archaeologist 4,000 years from now might dig up YOUR poo! Why not save time and take it round to your local museum NOW? (Please, PLEASE don't!)
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