Archaeologists Unseal 17th-Century Danish Latrines to Discover Copenhageners' Dietary Habits - Smithsonian


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Archaeologists Unseal 17th-Century Danish Latrines to Discover Copenhageners' Dietary Habits
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Two wine barrels filled with human excrement, sand and gravel fragments, animal bones and an array of Renaissance-era rubbish have enabled Danish archaeologists to map the dietary and hygienic habits of a 17th-century Copenhagen neighborhood.