Iron Age Living: Food

In this, the second episode of Iron Age Living, we examine the sorts of foods that Iron Age people ate and even grind our own flour in a rotary quern! Bread and butter really are timeless classics...
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[@jakobraahauge7299]

This is so cute and cool! Lots of love from Denmark 🤗

[@djihadmahamdi1201]

We still use this in Algeria in our berber regions

[@debrarobinson57]

I love the way he casually mentions milking a cow. Aurochs were huge. Absolutely huge. Cows now are shadows of that ancestor, & even so, a cow with a calf can be very dangerous. I for one, can't imagine casually milking an aurocks. I believe that the only milk they would have accessed would be from dead, but feeding, cows. They may have then kept the calf, - for a period of time, until meat was needed, & thus started ' domesticating' them by breeding the smaller & less aggressive individuals.

[@CoedtwrchWild]

Yes, you’re correct in every way; except for the timing.
The gap between aurochs and domestic cow,
(to whatever degree she’s ’domesticated’), is massive,
thousands, if not possibly tens of thousands of years, (we don’t yet know the exact timeframe),
and again you’re right,
do NOT try to milk an aurochs! 😂
But by the Iron Age, after the Bronze Age…&c &c
human kind had managed to breed a bovine type that we would recognise now as a domestic cow.
Several, in fact.
By that time they would’ve already had many regional, and arguably specialist, breeds of cattle.
To suggest we were milking aurochs in the Iron Age is like…
oof, I’m, having trouble with a suitable simile…
It’s like,
well, it’s like saying we’re still trying to milk aurochs now 🤷🏻‍♀️we’re closer to the Iron Age now
than we were, when in the Iron Age, to aurochs hunters,
hope that makes sense.

[@debrarobinson57]

Auroch were still alive on the continent until the 17th Century. I am aware of genetics ! Howver we have found evidence of dairy products from the neolithic, so your timings are out.

[@simongee8928]

It makes you wonder the thought processes that went into realising about grinding and baking wheat to produce the end product.

[@thermotheo]

Why were the quern stones made of sandstone? Was it easier to shape the stones? Why not make it from a harder stone that wouldn't hurt your teeth?

[@theprimatehouse4067]

Probably because sandstone was more common to find and was easier to shape and they probably wouldn’t of known about the grinding of your teeth over time.

[@scoon2117]

Mos scale

[@Houston123ABC]

This was good!

[@biueprint]

thought they used to eat each other in the iron age

[@dcmhsotaeh]

Good that they did not have organised religion

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

God has always been present
And ppl have always worshipped Him or false gods
Organizing it beyond His instructions is the foolishness of man, not haShem.