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800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewish dietary practices (medievalists.net)
ClosedPistachio 1111 days ago [-]
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...

mttpgn 1110 days ago [-]
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 1110 days ago [-]
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.
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