Stone Age woman ate like a wolf
By Mark Henderson, Science Correspondent



THE thigh bone of a Stone Age woman who ate almost as much
meat as a wolf has been found in a dried-up channel of the Trent.
It gives archaeologists their earliest look at the development of the
British diet.

Chemical analysis of the 7,700-year-old femur shows that the
"Lady of Trent", whose remains were unearthed at the
Nottinghamshire village of Staythorpe, was not one to eat her
greens. Her diet had a meat content more similar to that of a
wolf or a lion than of modern man. Further evidence of her
diet comes from bones of a similar age belonging to deer
and wild cattle, many bearing cut marks typical of human
butchery, that were found at the site.

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