9000-year-mature fish bones discovered in southern Sweden provides earliest evidence of fermentation for food preservation anywhere in the world The Scandinavian diet is famously hard going for anyone who doesn’t like pickled fish – and a unique archaeological discovery has proved that it was precisely the same more than 9000 years ago.
The find has revealed that freshwater fish were being fermented on an industrial scale in southern Sweden,through a complicated and distinctly unappetising process involving pine bark and seal blubber, which made the region capable of supporting a far larger population than previously thought.
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Source: theguardian.com