
DNA analysis sheds light on Iron Age salt miners’ diets
This is the first molecular evidence of beer production in Iron Age Europe.

This is the first molecular evidence of beer production in Iron Age Europe.

In this month’s ‘Science Notes’, we are looking at a recent study from a team of researchers led by Aleksandar Kostic from Harvard Medical School, which analysed examples of palaeofaeces, or coprolites, from the Americas.