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moss wrote:
Interesting flurry of news on the feasting at Durrington Walls. Dairy products become 'ritual', no salads or greens...

http://www.heritagedaily.com/2015/10/culinary-habits-of-the-stonehenge-builders/108630

"Little evidence of plant-based meals were located at the site. Researchers found the burnt remains of nuts and wild fruits such as berries or crab apples, but no cooking greens or vegetables were located at what is described as a “meat fest”.

Read more: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news/feeding-stonehenge-hearty-menu-monument-builders-revealed-barbeque-pork-roast-beef-yogurt-and-020564#ixzz3oXIaPLC2

You often wonder if the people that write up these stories actually understood the papers they report on .
The reading from the paper by the reviews is a bit misleading concerning greens/vegetables .
The tests were for absorbed lipid residues i.e. fats ,waxes etc which are likely to be high in meat and dairy products ,but not in greens.

“ no cooking greens or vegetables were located at what is described as a “meat fest”.” The paper didn’t say that ,what it did say was “and an emphasis on animal over plant foods.” , “Without knowing the isotope values of cereal grains or other plant foods that were available, however, it is difficult to assess the relative dietary contribution of animal and plant products, and therefore whether the range of foods encountered at Durrington Walls
were consumed on a regular basis. “ and “Plant foods such as fruits and tubers are also less
likely to have come into contact with fire during processing and may therefore be somewhat
underrepresented. “ and even “trace amounts of degraded vegetable waxes were detected in a small number of sherds “ all of which are quite different from the suggestion in the review .

tiompan wrote:
You often wonder if the people that write up these stories actually understood the papers they report on .
The reading from the paper by the reviews is a bit misleading concerning greens/vegetables .
The tests were for absorbed lipid residues i.e. fats ,waxes etc which are likely to be high in meat and dairy products ,but not in greens.

“ no cooking greens or vegetables were located at what is described as a “meat fest”.” The paper didn’t say that ,what it did say was “and an emphasis on animal over plant foods.” , “Without knowing the isotope values of cereal grains or other plant foods that were available, however, it is difficult to assess the relative dietary contribution of animal and plant products, and therefore whether the range of foods encountered at Durrington Walls
were consumed on a regular basis. “ and “Plant foods such as fruits and tubers are also less
likely to have come into contact with fire during processing and may therefore be somewhat
underrepresented. “ and even “trace amounts of degraded vegetable waxes were detected in a small number of sherds “ all of which are quite different from the suggestion in the review .

You should be grateful I never put the Daily Mail article up Tiompan ;). Problem is the 'real' news is in Antiquity and has to be paid for, and sensationalism is what newspapers are all about. I believe that they would have used other foodstuffs to bulk their diet out. Nuts for a start, they didn't have those pesky grey squirrels around stealing them. Greens such as sorrel, or nettles, and it was custom to eat the new tips of the hawthorn bush up to the Victorian age. I suspect there were women who gathered such things, what about fungi? you would have to work through the poisonous ones of course.
Skewed truths are something we are all used to in daily politics, we should always take newspaper reporting with a pinch of salt.....