{"id":56,"date":"2003-09-30T23:00:03","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:07","slug":"taste-for-fish-floundered-in-stone-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"taste for fish floundered in stone age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stone-age Brits quickly gave up eating fish when  meat and grains became easily available, researchers report in the Sept.  25 <em>Nature.<\/em> Archeologist Michael P. Richards of the University of  Bradford, UK, and his colleagues analyzed human bones from coastal and  inland sites to determine the diet of ancient Britons. Marine and  terrestrial dietary proteins leave different &#8220;signatures&#8221; in the bones  and, in this way, the researchers were able to discover what foods were  eaten most. They found a sharp change from a diet that consisted of  large amounts of marine life to one dominated by meat and cereal crops &#8211;  even for coastal inhabitants. The change coincides with the arrival of  the first domesticated animals and plants to Britain some 5,000 years  ago. The authors stated: &#8220;The attraction of the new farming lifestyle  must have been strong enough to persuade even coastal dwellers to  abandon their successful fishing practices.&#8221; The strong resurgence of  fish and chips in later centuries would require more extensive study. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 9\/30\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stone-age Brits quickly gave up eating fish when meat and grains became easily available, researchers report in the Sept. 25 Nature. Archeologist Michael P. Richards of the University of Bradford, UK, and his colleagues analyzed human bones from coastal and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=56\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}