The Neolithic builders were, it seems, partygoers, but their feasting came at a price - with some unpleasant surprises in their food.
"The type of parasites we find are compatible with previous evidence for winter feasting on animals during the building of Stonehenge."Four of the coprolites, including the human one, contained the eggs of capillariid worms.
The scientists say evidence of them in human faeces indicates the person had eaten the raw or undercooked lungs or liver from an already infected animal, resulting in the parasite's eggs passing straight through the body. Previous analyses of cow teeth from Durrington Walls suggest some cattle were herded almost 100km from Devon or Wales to the site for large-scale feasting.
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