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Oldest DNA from poop contains a Neanderthal’s microbiome

Enlarge / El Salt is an open-air rock shelter nestled against the base of a limestone cliff. Archaeological evidence tells us that Neanderthals lived here from around 60,700 to 45,200 years ago. (credit: Candela et al. 2021) Biologist Marco Candela and his colleagues recently sequenced ancient microbial DNA from 50,000-year-old Neanderthal feces found at the […]

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Archaeologists delved into medieval cesspits to Research old Intestine microbiomes

Expand (charge: Sabin et al. 2020) Among those matters archaeology always teaches us is that humankind is unusually resilient in the face of catastrophe. Another is that feces is indefinitely. Archaeologists have researched the materials of coprolites along with also the substances left behind with a town’s worth of individual waste. And based on a […]

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