dietary evidence

Current Archaeology
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Tracing the international food trade of Iron Age Ireland

Excavations at an Iron Age fort in County Dublin have uncovered evidence of the exotic tastes of its inhabitants, including the earliest archaeological remains of a fig discovered in Ireland. Drumanagh promontory fort consists of c.46 acres of land enclosed…

Current Archaeology
394

New dietary evidence for The Cairns ‘Elder’

New isotope analysis of a jawbone found buried against the outside wall of an Iron Age broch at The Cairns on South Ronaldsay, Orkney, has shown that seafood was probably a major part of this person’s diet throughout their lifetime.