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Thirsty work, salt mines!

Colin Bootle 14/10/2021 09:06:51
Thirsty work, salt mines!

‘Sophisticated’: ancient faeces shows humans enjoyed beer and blue cheese 2,700 years ago

Austrian Alps salt miners had a ‘balanced diet’, with an analysis of bronze and iron age excrement finding the earliest evidence of cheese ripening in Europe