But! Here’s where it gets really interesting: there was a fourth group at the feast, who seem to have brought deer rather than cattle. And, based on their stable isotopes, the deer had eaten a diet of wild foods, whereas the cattle had feed on a diet of plants that had been previously fertilized with manure.
The pit is also filled with tiny, delicate stone tools known as “microliths” which were a signature technology of the Western Hunter Gatherers.
So there was a fourth group at the Coneybury feast. Three groups of farmers, bringing cattle and other farmed foods, and one group of Hunter gatherers, bringing wild deer they had hunted in the forest.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-prehistoric-society/article/meeting-in-the-forest-hunters-and-farmers-at-the-coneybury-anomaly-wiltshire/D374C0D10E80DA5604482A3F9B7906D3
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