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Citation
Bull ID, Simpson I, van Bergen PF & Evershed RP (1999) Muck 'n' molecules: Organic geochemical methods for detecting ancient manuring. Antiquity, 73 (279), pp. 86-96. http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/ant/073/Ant0730086.htm
Abstract
The detection of manuring in antiquity can provide important information concerning the agricultural and waste disposal practices of ancient communities. Faecal biomarkers provide a reliable and highly diagnostic method for detecting ancient faecal inputs to soils irrespective of any morphological remnants of manuring.
Keywords
biomarkers, organic geochemistry, soils, experimental archaeology, manuring
Journal
Antiquity: Volume 73, Issue 279
| Status | Published |
|---|---|
| Publication date | 31/12/1999 |
| Publisher | Durham University |
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| ISSN | 0003-598X |
| eISSN | 1745-1744 |
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Professor, Biological and Environmental Sciences