Dr. Yiming V. Wang

Bile acids as biomarkers in carbonized archaeological sediment: Insights from dung burning experiments Bile acids are increasingly used as fecal biomarkers for studying archeology, environmental pollution, paleoeconomy, and human-animal interactions. Exclusively synthesized by vertebrates, bile acids a...

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Archaeologists often look for chemical traces of burned dung to understand past human-animal interactions. But, how well do these biomarkers survive the fire? Our new study shows high heat destroys faecal biomarkers.
Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...