Tuesday 6 April 2021

How baked bat guano helped archaeologists understand our ancient past

In an experiment to understand better how ancient artifacts are altered by the sediment in which they are buried for thousands of years, Australian archaeological scientists buried bones, stones, charcoal and other items in bat guano, cooked it, and analyzed how this affected the different items.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-04-guano-archaeologists-ancient.html