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      • When early farmers discovered that value thousands of years ago, they made possible the long-term success of agriculture, and with it the development of civilization. Our Stone Age ancestors must have been very familiar with the smells of excrements. Hunters would have used those smells as other carnivores do, to locate their prey.
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  2. Nov 15, 2021 · HISTORY. How the Ancient Romans Went to the Bathroom. A new book by journalist Lina Zeldovich traces the management of human waste—and underscores poop’s potential as a valuable resource. Lina...

  3. Oct 20, 2020 · According to Piers Mitchell, a paleopathologist from the University of Cambridge, scientists have been extracting data from ancient poop for over a century.

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    They were first described by William Buckland in 1829. Prior to this, they were known as "fossil fir cones " and " bezoar stones". They serve a valuable purpose in paleontology because they provide direct evidence of the predation and diet of extinct organisms. [ 18 ]

  5. May 14, 2019 · The Europeans came to realize its value when explorer Alexander von Humboldt first brought some back with him in 1804. For the farmers using it on their land for the first time, the results...

  6. Dec 4, 2012 · He turned to a cache of chemistry papers and, with their help, confirmed his suspicion: He was looking at human fecal sterols, the last chemical hurrah of poop. And these feces were decidedly...

  7. Jun 25, 2014 · Want the real poop on the Paleolithic Diet? Discovery of the oldest human fecal fossils, some 50,000 years old, suggests that Neanderthals balanced their meat-heavy diet with plenty of...