More on preservation in bogs here:
nytimes.com/…/archaeology-britain-must-farm.html
edition.cnn.com/2024/03/20/europe/…/index.html
The full site report can be found here, lots of pics. Scroll to bottom for pdfs.
Comment on Rekt
Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 5 months agoI’m sure it was accidental at first, but eventually they found out bogs were great at preserving things. There are plenty of records of people putting food in bogs to preserve them.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Cort@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Didn’t someone find perfectly good butter in a bog from a few hundred years ago?
drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 5 months ago
Would you eat toast that had been buttered with the bog butter?
Cort@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Honestly, depends on the smell. But I’d probably try a bite
Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 5 months ago
I’d probably take a bite a day after they took a bite