Wednesday, 17 April 2019

Ancient pee helps archaeologists track the rise of farming

The Aşıklı Höyük site in Turkey, where researchers have studied urine salts to estimate human and ...

One of the most important transitions in human history was when we stopped hunting and gathering for food and instead settled down to become farmers. Now, to reconstruct the history of one particular archaeological site in Turkey, scientists have examined a pretty unexpected source – the salts left behind from human and animal pee.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2IqKzPZ

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