Fossil spores of coprophilous fungi in Ugandan lake sediments: expanding the biological toolbox to reconstruct the history of pastoralism in East Africa

Knowledge on how ancient indigenous East African people used its landscape and natural resources is shrouded behind a curtain of scarce archaeological finds and lack of written sources. This project aims to reconstruct the history of pastoralism (animal husbandry) by optimizing a palaeoecological tool based on the assemblages of fossil spores of coprophilous (dung-loving) fungi preserved in dated lake sediments.