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You'd expect scavengers to get the food: rodents, insects, etc.? Buildings that fall into disrepair tend to be scavenged by humans for materials too. Much more
by pbhjpbhj 4y ago
You'd expect scavengers to get the food: rodents, insects, etc.?
Buildings that fall into disrepair tend to be scavenged by humans for materials too. Much moreso anywhere there's wealth disparity or resource shortages.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoYou'd be surprised. It depends heavily on the prevailing social mores. Besides, much of what archaeologists recover is the stuff that survived, not the 99% that didn't.
- giantg2 4y agoNotice that they didn't find any beer or wine. It seems the important stuff got scavenged.
- einherjae 4y agoPresumably just the eras equivalent of Hákarl or Surströmming was left, alongside the pizza-with-pineapple equivalent and Dr. Pepper-equivalent.
- nick123567 4y agoIn archaeological terms, they could be discovering stuff like microscopic grain husks embedded into the clay of the containers. Though they could have found whole chicken skeletons or fossilized garlic or something else too... I searched for a moment but couldn't find more details from this dig about the food specifically.