Modern human need for medicines is so extensive that it is thought to be a deep
evolutionary behavior. There is abundant evidence from our Paleolithic and later prehistoric …

Evidence for plants rarely survives on Paleolithic sites, while animal bones and
biomolecular analyses suggest animal produce was important to hominin populations …

Background Dental calculus, calcified oral plaque biofilm, contains microbial and host
biomolecules that can be used to study historic microbiome communities and host …

Archaeological dental calculus has emerged as a rich source of ancient biomolecules,
including proteins. Previous analyses of proteins extracted from ancient dental calculus …

Dental calculus (mineralized dental plaque) was first recognised as a potentially useful
archaeological deposit in the 1970s, though interest in human dental calculus as a resource …

Abstract During the Mesolithic in Europe, there is widespread evidence for an increase in
exploitation of aquatic resources. In contrast, the subsequent Neolithic is characterised by …

Residue analyses on a grinding tool recovered at Grotta Paglicci sublayer 23A [32,614±429
calibrated (cal) BP], Southern Italy, have demonstrated that early modern humans collected …

Researchers agree that domesticated plants were introduced into southeast Europe from
southwest Asia as a part of a Neolithic “package,” which included domesticated animals and …

Human dental calculus is an excellent target for examining the plant component of ancient
diets. Microfossils become imbedded within dental calculus throughout life, providing an …

In this contribution we dismantle the perceived role of marine resources and plant foods in
the subsistence economy of Holocene foragers of the Central Mediterranean using a …