Dry animal dung, such as that of camel, bison and cattle, is burned as fuel in many countries. [13] Yokoyama, M. T.; Carlson, J. R. (1979). "Microbial metabolites of tryptophan in the intestinal tract with special reference to skatole". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 32 (1): 173–178. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/32.1.173. PMID 367144.

Langley, Leroy Lester; Cheraskin, Emmanuel (1958). The Physiology of Man. McGraw-Hill. Archived from the original on 1 August 2020 . Retrieved 3 December 2019. When I was growing up in suburban Chicago in the 1950s, after Sunday afternoon dinners that often centered on rare roast beef, my parents would take all four children on car rides into the countryside. We were grossed out by the smells of the dairy farms and incredulous that, as my father was happy to insist, our delicious dinner could have come from those animals. We had a mantra for the moment we got the first whiff: “Red meat from a cow? Pee-YOO!” Dog feces was used in the tanning process of leather during the Victorian era. Collected dog feces, known as "pure", "puer", or "pewer", [25] were mixed with water to form a substance known as "bate", because proteolytic enzymes in the dog feces helped to relax the fibrous structure of the hide before the final stages of tanning. [26] Dog feces collectors were known as pure finders. [27] This new step in excrement history was very important, not only because it led to the creation of sewage systems as we know them, but also because it began to alter the existing nutritional balance of land and water ecosystems, which left us grappling with many of the environmental problems we are experiencing today.Dr. Christina Warriner is in this camp. She’s an assistant professor of anthropology at Harvard University. Sci-fi producer Kathleen Davis spoke to Dr. Warriner about her recent research with fossilized feces.

The fossil record is littered with countless, interesting things. Ancient bones of giant beasts and the fossils of long-extinct plant life, to name a few. But for some researchers, nothing is more exciting than finding fossilized feces. CHRISTINA WARINNER: Yeah, so coprolites are fantastic in terms of the range of information you can get from them, but they’re rare. So we can only really access particular places and times in the past. What’s really exciting about looking at calcified dental plaque, or calculus, is that nearly every skeleton has it. And so this really opens up the entire archaeological record for us to investigate the past. CHRISTINA WARINNER: Yeah, so we didn’t actually set out to find dog feces. The ancient dog poop. We started the study, really, because we were interested in the humans themselves, and then discovered that we had dogs mixed in.Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, archived from the original on 25 September 2015 , retrieved 17 March 2015. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-07-07 02:00:53 Boxid IA40164617 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The health of soil ecosystems has always depended on their having sufficient concentrations of nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, and carbon, as well as some other nutrients like iron, magnesium, and sulfur. Without these elements, the plants can’t build their cell walls or convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. The richest soils, coveted by farmers and gardeners worldwide, have always been high in these basic nutrients. By contrast, aquatic and marine environments have evolved to be low on these elements. And that’s fine. For aquatic ecosystems, an overabundance of these elements isn’t a good thing. Many water-based sewage systems we use today continuously over-enrich waterways, contributing to toxic algal blooms and coastal marshes’ decay. The Palace at Knossos, Crete via Wikimedia Commons

KATHLEEN DAVIS: And what was the age range of the coprolites that you were looking at in this study? Rohm and Haas Innovation - The Leather Breakthrough". Rohmhaas.com. 1 September 1909. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012 . Retrieved 27 October 2012. The reason this analysis is possible at all is due to the digestive system not being entirely efficient, in the sense that not everything that passes through the digestive system is destroyed. Not all of the surviving material is recognizable, but some of it is. Generally, this material is the best indicator archaeologists can use to determine ancient diets, as no other part of the archaeological record is so direct an indicator. [20] One song, "Are You Afraid", is an original composition that the band played live as an introduction to "Gravity" but never included on an official studio album. It foreshadows the gothic sound the band would adopt on their next album, Bloody Kisses.

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