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My gut feeling (pun intended) is that the manure theory makes sense and lower ranked monks were just more likely to rotate across all tasks needed in the friary

My gut feeling (pun intended) is that the manure theory makes sense and lower ranked monks were just more likely to rotate across all tasks needed in the friary, as opposed to peasants who specialised in a single activity (farmer, carpenter, quest NPCs, etc)

dhaavi 4y ago
Kudos for the "quest NPCs" joke.
bleuarff 4y ago
My understanding is that they analyzed remains from Cambridge cemetery, meaning they were probably city-dwelling people and not peasants, so less prone to agricultural works where you catch the worms.