Paleofeces

[Subdeacon Joe]

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01271-9?utm_source=EA

 

Highlights

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  Gut microbiome and diet of European salt miners determined using paleofeces
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  Until the Baroque, the microbiome resembled that of modern non-Westernized people
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  Food-fermenting fungi in Iron Age feces indicates blue cheese and beer consumption

Summary

We subjected human paleofeces dating from the Bronze Age to the Baroque period (18^th century AD) to in-depth microscopic, metagenomic, and proteomic analyses. The paleofeces were preserved in the underground salt mines of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hallstatt in Austria. This allowed us to reconstruct the diet of the former population and gain insights into their ancient gut microbiome composition. Our dietary survey identified bran and glumes of different cereals as some of the most prevalent plant fragments. This highly fibrous, carbohydrate-rich diet was supplemented with proteins from broad beans and occasionally with fruits, nuts, or animal food products. Due to these traditional dietary habits, all ancient miners up to the Baroque period have gut microbiome structures akin to modern non-Westernized individuals whose diets are also mainly composed of unprocessed foods and fresh fruits and vegetables. This may indicate a shift in the gut community composition of modern Westernized populations due to quite recent dietary and lifestyle changes. When we extended our microbial survey to fungi present in the paleofeces, in one of the Iron Age samples, we observed a high abundance of Penicillium roqueforti and Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA. Genome-wide analysis indicates that both fungi were involved in food fermentation and provides the first molecular evidence for blue cheese and beer consumption in Iron Age Europe

 

 

[Ozark Huckleberry]

Indistinguishable paleofeces, disparate eon

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

What a crock of sh ...... tuff !

 

 

[Texas Joker]

Well you would feed prisoners and slaves the cheap stuff. 

Fermented food keeps without refrigeration longer, beer is calorie intensive and is a sedative. 

[Badlands Bob #61228]

Studying ancient terds in salt mines has got to be one of those government sponsored jobs.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Just now, Badlands Bob #61228 said:

Studying ancient terds in salt mines has got to be one of those government sponsored jobs.

 

Grad student projects.  

[Ozark Huckleberry]

Ancient miners had a diet ‘. . . mainly composed of unprocessed foods.’
 

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

29 minutes ago, Ozark Huckleberry said:

Ancient miners had a diet ‘. . . mainly composed of unprocessed foods.’
 

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

well CRAP 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

12 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01271-9?utm_source=EA

 

Highlights

• •
  Gut microbiome and diet of European salt miners determined using paleofeces
• •
  Until the Baroque, the microbiome resembled that of modern non-Westernized people
• •
  Food-fermenting fungi in Iron Age feces indicates blue cheese and beer consumption

Summary

We subjected human paleofeces dating from the Bronze Age to the Baroque period (18^th century AD) to in-depth microscopic, metagenomic, and proteomic analyses. The paleofeces were preserved in the underground salt mines of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hallstatt in Austria. This allowed us to reconstruct the diet of the former population and gain insights into their ancient gut microbiome composition. Our dietary survey identified bran and glumes of different cereals as some of the most prevalent plant fragments. This highly fibrous, carbohydrate-rich diet was supplemented with proteins from broad beans and occasionally with fruits, nuts, or animal food products. Due to these traditional dietary habits, all ancient miners up to the Baroque period have gut microbiome structures akin to modern non-Westernized individuals whose diets are also mainly composed of unprocessed foods and fresh fruits and vegetables. This may indicate a shift in the gut community composition of modern Westernized populations due to quite recent dietary and lifestyle changes. When we extended our microbial survey to fungi present in the paleofeces, in one of the Iron Age samples, we observed a high abundance of Penicillium roqueforti and Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA. Genome-wide analysis indicates that both fungi were involved in food fermentation and provides the first molecular evidence for blue cheese and beer consumption in Iron Age Europe

 

 

 

This sounds like it was a crappy job!

[Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme]

With all that mining, did they strike it rich or did they end up Baroque ? 

[Sixgun Sheridan]

Hey, if it's not Baroque don't fix it...

[J-BAR #18287]

I know about paleofeces.  Constipation is a b***h!  Some of that stuff should have exited in the 20th century.

 

 I know, I know, too much information.

 

[Pat Riot]

Turds memorialized…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleofeces
 

 

 

Son:

“Hey Mom…Dad, I have decided to go for my PhD in Archeology studying Paleofeces”.

 

Mom:

”That’s nice, Honey. Whatever makes you happy.”

 

Dad: (grumbling)

”I worked hard all my life so my kid wouldn’t have to grow up taking sh** from anybody and now he wants to run off and play in caveman sh**!…at $75,000 a year for school and a job that pays him $50,000 per year!