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The headline also over-generalizes the results: perhaps using human excement as fertilizer was more common at Cambridge, but the study did not look at other mon
by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
The headline also over-generalizes the results: perhaps using human excement as fertilizer was more common at Cambridge, but the study did not look at other monasteries (or other Medieval time frames). I wonder whether there is a reason to expect that farming practices were shared between monasteries.