Human and livestock faecal biomarkers at the prehistorical encampment site of Ullafelsen in the Fotsch Valley, Stubai Alps, Austria – potential and limitations

Lerch, Marcel; Bromm, Tobias; Geitner, Clemens; Haas, Jean Nicolas; Schäfer, Dieter; Glaser, Bruno; Zech, Michael

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-1135-2022

Articles | Volume 19, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-1135-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-1135-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 4

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23 Feb 2022

Research article |

| 23 Feb 2022

Human and livestock faecal biomarkers at the prehistorical encampment site of Ullafelsen in the Fotsch Valley, Stubai Alps, Austria – potential and limitations

Marcel Lerch, Tobias Bromm, Clemens Geitner, Jean Nicolas Haas, Dieter Schäfer, Bruno Glaser, and Michael Zech

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Revisiting the subalpine Mesolithic site Ullafelsen in the Fotsch Valley, Stubai Alps, Austria – new insights into pedogenesis and landscape evolution from leaf-wax-derived n-alkanes, black carbon and radiocarbon dating M. Zech, M. Lerch, M. Bliedtner, T. Bromm, F. Seemann, S. Szidat, G. Salazar, R. Zech, B. Glaser, J. N. Haas, D. Schäfer, and C. Geitner https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-171-2021

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Faecal biomarker analyses present a useful tool in geoarcheological research. For a better understanding of the lives of our ancestors in alpine regions, we investigated modern livestock faeces and Holocene soils at the prehistorical encampment site of Ullafelsen in the Fotsch Valley, Stubai Alps, Austria. Initial results show a high input of livestock faeces and a negligible input of human faeces for this archeological site. Future studies will focus on mire archives in the Fotsch Valley.