Answer: The Norman Conquest didn't change ordinary people's lives very much.
Explanation: For the new study, Elizabeth Craig-Atkins (University of Sheffield), Richard Madgwick (Cardiff University), and their colleagues cobbled together part of the story from the bones and teeth of medieval Britons, as well as animal remains and microscopic residues left behind in cooking pottery. Together, those lines of evidence revealed what—and how well—people ate in the years on either side of the Norman Conquest. The results suggest that food supplies got a bit scarce during the conquest and the sporadic fighting that followed, but some aspects of life didn’t change much in its wake.“Despite the huge political and economic changes that were happening, our analysis suggests the conquest may have had a limited impact on most people’s diet and health,” said Craig-Atkins.