Is this then Romano-British beef?
Appologies
Mark
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From: Jacqui Mulville <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 09 August 2000 19:49
Subject: British beef? <fwd>
>Discuss?
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>As for me I just sighed and turned over the page (the front
>page of the observor mind you, so animal bones are
>interesting after all).
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>jacqui
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>"British beef? The Romans relished it first"
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>This was the headline over one of the stories on the front page of last
>sunday's Observer. The article notes that "...Britons acquired the habit
>of eating cows from the Romans 2,000 years ago" and goes on to quote
>Simon Thurley, director of the Museum of London, as saying 'Ancient
>Britons did not eat beef at all'.
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>I am not a prehistorian but even my rudimentary knowledge of pre-Roman
>periods suggests that something is very wrong here. For example, animal
>bone assemblages in excavation reports for Iron Age sites that I am
>familiar with suggest that cattle were a major dietary component in the
>Iron Age.
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>It suggests that the author of this article, Tim Cooper, has done little
>or nothing to check out this story. I am perhaps naive but I was always
>under the impression that journalists did at least some checking. It
>also suggests that Simon Thurley has been severely misquoted. The
>alternative would be that he has made some rather rash, even
>preposterous, statements.
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>The result in any case is that the public have been served up utter
>drivel in a paper that I saw as part of the quality press - think that
>opinion has changed now.
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>Tony
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>Oxford University Museum,
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>Tel: 01865-272996 Fax: 01865-272970
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