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University of Kansas: Archaeological Dig Reveals Participants in California's Gold Rush Dined on Salted Atlantic Cod
January 07, 2022
LAWRENCE, Kansas, Jan. 7 (TNSJou) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news:

It turns out San Francisco has been a destination for lovers of imported delicacies since its earliest Gold Rush days.

According to results published recently in the peer-reviewed Journal of Anthropological Research, an excavation at Thompson's Cove in San Francisco has shown "Atlantic cod were imported during the 1850s, likely as a (largely) deboned, dried and salted prod . . .

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