Hallstatt miners consumed blue cheese and beer during the Iron Age and retained a non-Westernized gut microbiome until the Baroque period.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-8-2021

Publication Title

Current biology : CB

Keywords

washington; seattle; isb; Hallstatt; beer; cheese; diet; fermented food; microbiome; paleofeces; protohistory; salt mine

Abstract

We subjected human paleofeces dating from the Bronze Age to the Baroque period (18

Department

Institute for Systems Biology

Department

Nutrition

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