The evidence is in, the Stonehenge crowd loved their roasted pork and beef.
The settlers who built Stonehenge worked hard and had an appetite.
They had to drag all those stones around, building one of the most famous monuments in human history.
That's enough to make anyone hungry for a BBQ.
Research about the diet of Stonehenge's builders tells us they are a lot like us, they loved BBQ.
It appears the ancient builders of Stonehenge may have hosted massive barbecue cookouts where thousands of revelers feasted on meat.
Yes, they ate barbecued meats, Like pork and beef, just like us.
By analyzing fat residue found inside pottery shards and on animal bones, a team of archaeologists from the University of York and the University of Sheffield discovered "evidence of organized feasts featuring barbecue-style roasting."
If Stonehenge’s builders ate veggies there’s little evidence of it. Mostly, the archaeologists say, they were busy were boiling and roasting the meat—pork, in particular—and then staging elaborate feasts. The cooking seems to have been done inside people’s homes as well as outdoors.
By analyzing fat residue found inside pottery shards and on animal bones, a team of archaeologists from the University of York and the University of Sheffield discovered "evidence of organized feasts featuring barbecue-style roasting."
If Stonehenge’s builders ate veggies there’s little evidence of it. Mostly, the archaeologists say, they were busy were boiling and roasting the meat—pork, in particular—and then staging elaborate feasts. The cooking seems to have been done inside people’s homes as well as outdoors.
And it seems the cooking and feasting were organized to a fare-thee-well.
Okay, we don't know exactly how the food was prepared, but from where we see it, Stonehenge sounds like the perfect BBQ pit.
