Multi-proxy analyses of a mid-15th century Middle Iron Age Bantu-speaker palaeo-faecal specimen elucidates the configuration of the 'ancestral' sub-Saharan African intestinal microbiome.
Riaan F Rifkin,
Surendra Vikram,
Jean-Baptiste Ramond,
Alba Rey-Iglesia,
Tina B Brand,
Guillaume Porraz,
Aurore Val,
Grant Hall,
Stephan Woodborne,
Matthieu Le Bailly,
Marnie Potgieter,
Simon J Underdown,
Jessica E Koopman,
Don A Cowan,
Yves Van de Peer,
Eske Willerslev,
Anders J Hansen
Jun 08, 2020
BACKGROUND: The archaeological incidence of ancient human faecal material provides a rare opportunity to explore the taxonomic composition and metabolic capacity of the ancestral human intestinal microbiome (IM). Here, we report...