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Bronze Age feasts uncovered in ancient English trash heaps

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We've always loved a food fest. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. While they may not have been pretty sights, the large prehistoric trash dumps known as middens are critical to understanding human history . Details about a people's diet, architecture, clothing, and society can all be gleaned by digging through these mounds. In what is now the largest study of its kind, Cardiff University archaeologists documented years of excavations at six sites across southern England.

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