Minimally Destructive Radiocarbon Dating of Caprine Dung
Daniel Fuks,
Niamh O’Neill-Munro,
Paula J Reimer
et al.
Abstract:Archaeological dung pellets are time capsules of ancient herbivore diets and gut flora, informing on past agropastoral activity, ecology, and animal health. Improving multi-proxy approaches is key to maximizing this finite archaeological resource. Through experiments with standard pretreatments used in radiocarbon (14C) dating, we address a fundamental problem in maximal multi-proxy analysis: How to chronometrically date individual caprine pellets while conserving as much as possible for additional analyses? W… Show more
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