[HN Gopher] 800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewis...
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       800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewish dietary
       practices
        
       Author : Petiver
       Score  : 109 points
       Date   : 2021-04-09 23:48 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | mttpgn wrote:
       | I don't understand why so many bones could be found in the
       | latrine. To me that indicates either that humans commonly ate
       | bones during the middle ages or that latrines were used not just
       | for toilets but as cooking-scraps dumps as well.
        
         | inglor_cz wrote:
         | What I learnt from a friend of mine who studied archeology:
         | latrine was not a strictly separated place. Instead, there were
         | more generic "trash places", where latrines usually stood, but
         | a lot more unwanted things ended up, too. Including broken
         | pottery, bones and fruit stones.
        
       | ClosedPistachio wrote:
       | Here's the link to the research paper:
       | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-021-01282-8
       | 
       | This article from Smithsonian Mag was good too:
       | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-jews-engl...
        
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