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Anthropology

Warpy

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2. Considering they haven't found it in other foods

Reply to rampartc (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 23, 2021, 03:37 PM

Jul 2021

or fire remains, that is unlikely. Threshing and winnowing have existed pretty much the same way since the neolithic in the Middle East. These people were Iron Age, they certainly knew what they were doing. The only reason to include a large amount of chaff in a porridge is to increase bulk, to help people feel full even though the nutritional content had been drastically lowered. I just don't think it would have been a ceremonial mixture. They used other things for that.

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there is no doubt that human sacrifice was practiced in european prehistory rampartc Jul 2021 #1

Considering they haven't found it in other foods Warpy Jul 2021 #2