Species identification of archaeological dung remains: A critical review of potential methods

Methods for the examination of cattle, sheep and goat dung in prehistoric wetland settlements with examples of the sites Alleshausen-Täschenwiesen and Alleshausen-Grundwiesen (around cal 2900 BC) at Lake Federsee, south-west Germany

(2013) Marlu Kühn et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

What goes in does not always come out: The impact of the ruminant digestive system of sheep on plant material, and its importance for the interpretation of dung-derived archaeobotanical assemblages

(2013) Michael Wallace et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Domestic patterns in the Numidian site of Althiburos (northern Tunisia): The results from a combined study of animal bones, dung and plant remains

(2012) Marta Portillo et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Biomolecular and micromorphological analysis of suspected faecal deposits at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

(2011) Lisa-Marie Shillito et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Faeces deposition on Amazonian Anthrosols as assessed from 5β-stanols

(2011) Jago Jonathan Birk et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The ‘invisible’ product: developing markers for identifying dung in archaeological contexts

(2011) Carla Lancelotti et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Faecal biomarker and archaeobotanical analyses of sediments from a public latrine shed new light on ruralisation in Sagalassos, Turkey

(2011) Jan Baeten et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Complex Evolution of Bile Salts in Birds

(2010) Lee R. Hagey et al.   AUK

Evolutionary diversity of bile salts in reptiles and mammals, including analysis of ancient human and extinct giant ground sloth coprolites

(2010) Lee R Hagey et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Herbivorous livestock dung: formation, taphonomy, methods for identification, and archaeological significance

(2010) Ruth Shahack-Gross   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Archaeol – a biomarker for foregut fermentation in modern and ancient herbivorous mammals?

(2010) Fiona L. Gill et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Mycological evidence of coprophagy from the feces of an Alaskan Late Glacial mammoth

(2010) Bas van Geel et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Acari in archaeology

(2009) Anne S. Baker   EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY

Sites with Holocene dung deposits in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Visited by herders?

(2009) V. Linseele et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Bile salts of vertebrates: structural variation and possible evolutionary significance

(2009) Alan F. Hofmann et al.   JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH

The potential of plant biomarker evidence derived from rock hyrax middens as an indicator of palaeoenvironmental change

(2009) Andrew S. Carr et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Lipid analysis of a ground sloth coprolite

(2009) Fiona L. Gill et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Genetic testing of dung identification for antelope surveys in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania

(2008) Andrew E. Bowkett et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Plant exploitation and ethnopalynological evidence from the Wadi Teshuinat area (Tadrart Acacus, Libyan Sahara)

(2008) Anna Maria Mercuri   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The Ecological implications of a Yakutian mammoth's last meal

(2008) Bas van Geel et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Ovi-caprid dung as an indicator of paleovegetation and paleoclimate in northwestern China

(2008) Ruby Ghosh et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

DNA from Pre-Clovis Human Coprolites in Oregon, North America

(2008) M. T. P. Gilbert et al.   SCIENCE

Origin and seasonality of subfossil caprine dung from the discovery site of the Iceman (Eastern Alps)

(2008) Klaus Oeggl et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Identification of pastoral sites using stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes from bulk sediment samples: a case study in modern and archaeological pastoral settlements in Kenya

(2007) Ruth Shahack-Gross et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE