Coprolites are a highly informative but still underutilized proxy for understanding past
environments, palaeodiets, and ancient human health. Here we provide a critical review of …

Livestock dung is a valuable material for reconstructing human and animal inter-relations
and activity within open areas and built environments. This paper examines the identification …

The Aceramic Neolithic (∼ 9600 to 7000 cal BC) period in the Zagros Mountains, western
Iran, provides some of the earliest archaeological evidence of goat (Capra hircus) …

This paper argues that the search for an overarching explanation for the adoption of farming
and settled life in the Middle East can be enhanced by a consideration of the dependencies …

Over the last few decades a variety of geoarchaeological methods and ethnoarchaeological
and experimental approaches have demonstrated the fundamental importance of animal …

Fire-centred studies have recently been highlighted as powerful avenues for investigation of
energy flows and relations between humans, materials, environments and other species …

The early village at Çatalhöyük (7100–6150 BC) provides important evidence for the
Neolithic and Chalcolithic people of central Anatolia. This article reports on the use of lipid …

Over the last decades, micro-archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches have
demonstrated the importance of animal dung deposits for reconstructing past human …

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Parasites have been infecting humans throughout our evolution. When complex societies
developed, the greater population density provided new opportunities for parasites to …