Animal bones found in Late Bronze Age rubbish heaps show the distances people traveled to feast

Bronze Age Britons Threw Massive Ragers With Food and Friends From Far Away

Researchers investigated giant prehistoric trash piles to reveal where animal remains came from.

Ancient People Brought Animals From Far and Wide for Elaborate Feasts in Bronze Age Britain

Learn what massive mounds of ancient trash tell us about the large food festivals in Late Bronze Age Britain.

Bronze Age feasts uncovered in ancient English trash heaps

We've always loved a food fest.

Animal bones found in Late Bronze Age rubbish heaps show the distances people traveled to feast

Middens, massive prehistoric rubbish heaps which became part of the British landscape, are revealing the distances people traveled to feast together at the end of the Bronze Age.

Astonishing Amounts of Midden Debris Reveal Bronze Age Feasting Events

In the largest study of its kind, archaeologists from Cardiff University used cutting-edge isotope analysis on material found within six Bronze Age middens in Wiltshire and the Thames Valley. The results, which reveal where the animals that were feasted on were raised, shed light on the catchment of these vast feasts, arguably the largest to […]