Jun 04 2026SCIENCE
Hidden Food Stories of an Iron Age Town
The study looks at the food habits of people buried in a 1, 500‑year‑old cemetery in Padua, Italy. Researchers measured two types of stable isotopes—carbon and nitrogen—in bone samples from 19 adults and 16 animals. These chemicals act like fingerprints that tell scientists whether a person ate main
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