20th September 2011, 06:25 PM
P Prentice Wrote:@ dinosaur & jack aka pedentry f****n corner
you throw rubbish away but you keep a midden
But they didn't keep it, they just left it lying there! Is there meant to be something deeply meaningful in ancient beach-combers leaving their trash in a pile, other than that they can't have possessed a sense of smell and were immune to botulism? (assuming you're right and they were actually living on top of the reeking heap) - suspect the real reason they heaped the stuff up was cos sharp broken shells don't make a good flooring in their well-trodden living areas elsewhere, speaking from painful personal experience (4 stitches in the sole of the foot can spoil one's day, although I'm sure in the more enlightened Meso they got a local jab first)