Microbes frozen in ancient rubbish heaps help reconstruct ancient Greenlanders’ farms, seal hunts, and toilets
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Centuries-old refuse heaps don't sound like the most exciting place for scientific research. Yet, a group of archaeologists dived into the frozen garbage dumps of Greenland and became surprisingly much wiser. Amidst bone remains, excrement, and discarded artifacts, they discovered a complete microbial time capsule that has preserved thousands of years of human life. And there is good news for those […] More science? Read the latest articles on S…
Microbes frozen in ancient rubbish heaps help reconstruct ancient Greenlanders’ farms, seal hunts, and toilets
Greenland has a long and checkered history of human settlement: several Paleo-Inuit cultures since approximately 2,500 BCE, descendants of Vikings between the tenth and fifteenth centuries, and early modern Danes since 1721. All left their traces on the landscape, for example in the form of ancient domestic rubbish heaps. Composed of waste like animal bones, excrement, mollusk shells, and human artefacts, these middens are a precious resource fo…
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