‘White gold’ guano fertilizer drove agricultural intensification in the Atacama Desert from ad 1000

2021/01/25 by Francisca Santana‐Sagredo, Francisca Santana-Sagredo, Rick Schulting +17 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Agriculture #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Biology #Ecology #Environmental science #Geography #Guano #Holocene #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Population #Stable isotope ratio #δ13C #δ15N

paper · doi:10.1038/s41477-020-00835-4

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• Guano [wikipedia]