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The unearthed pots showed that only kosher food, and no pork, had ever been cooked in them. St Aldates Church was the centre of Oxford’s Jewish neighbourhood in the 12th and 13th century after William the Conqueror invited Jewish people in northern France to settle in England - possibly so they could pay taxes to fund his wars. Recent excavations by Oxford Archaeology, ahead of some development works, revealed evidence of two houses which the 800-year-old Doomsday Book suggested belonge...

800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewish dietary practices Jar in Medieval Oxford Ware, probably used as a cooking-pot and dated to the late 11th or 12th century and b. near-complete miniature jar in Early Brill Coarseware from structure 3.1. Image courtesy: University of Bristol. BRISTOL .- A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, with archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology, have found the first evidence of a religious diet locked inside pottery fragments excavated ...

Fish bones included only species such as herring, which is kosher, they added. The lead author of the research, Julie Dunne, from the University of Bristol’s School of Chemistry, said in a statement about the study: “This is a remarkable example of how biomolecular information extracted from medieval pottery, and combined with ancient documents and animal bones, has provided a unique insight into 800-year-old Jewish dietary practices.” Im proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll...

Food fragments discovered in an ancient toilet in Oxford helped scientists confirm that Britains medieval Jewish community avoided pork and kept kosher. While this has long been thought to be the case, this is the earliest concrete evidence so far of the diet in the UK.   Scientists from the University of Bristol and Oxford Archaeology, excavated the 12th century toilet found in the ancient Oxford Jewish quarter around St Aldates.  During excavations, archaeologists found a stone-built struc...

It’s not quite gefilte fish or foie gras — but it’s close. According to new research in Israel and the United States, ancient humans around the Sea of Galilee could have opted for a varied diet of fish and birds, but mostly went for carp and geese. The study by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Connecticut shows evidence that thousands of years ago humans cultivated a menu by their preference for certain foods, even when others were more easily available. It also of...

Friday, 27 November 2020 Some Arabic and Persian accounts of the export of tin from Cornwall to Egypt and Iran in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries The aim of the following piece is simply to share some interesting accounts of the tin-trade in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, particularly one written in Arabic and another in Persian. Taken together, these two accounts suggest that tin from southwestern England ( i.e. Cornwall and Devon) was exported via southern France to both Eg...

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Burial ground reveals Stone Age people wore clothing covered in elk teeth CNN 1/22/2021 By Ashley Strickland, CNN © Drawing by Tom Bjorklund This illustration reconstructs one of the graves, which included 90 elk teeth placed next to the hips and thighs of the body, possibly attached to a garment like an apron. There were elk teeth pendants also on the waist. Red ochre was sprinkled on top of the deceased. Elk teeth pendants may have been the jewelry of choice for at least ...

The researchers found no evidence to connect the pendants to any type of genetic markers. Genetic studies have revealed multi-ethnic origins for the Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov (YOO) people, but the similarity in manufacturing techniques used to make the elk teeth pendants, and the physical characteristics of those pendants, indicate a cultural homogeneity that contrasts with the genetic variations. In other words, the YOO hunter-gatherer culture seems to have been unified by their cultural practice...

Elk Teeth Offer Clues to Prehistoric Clothing in Russia Friday, January 15, 2021 HELSINKI, FINLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Helsinki, archaeologist Kristiina Mannermaa and her colleagues analyzed more than 4,000 elk incisors recovered from 8,200-year-old graves on an island in northwestern Russia’s Lake Onega. The teeth are thought to have decorated various items of clothing. All but two of the teeth had one or more small grooves placed at the tip of the...