Forager focus on wild cereal plants has been documented in the core zone of domestication
in southwestern Asia, while evidence for forager use of wild grass grains remains sporadic …

The emergence of agriculture in Central Africa has previously been associated with the
migration of Bantu-speaking populations during an anthropogenic or climate-driven …

A multidisciplinary approach, combining stable isotope analysis from bone proteins and
investigations on dental calculus using DNA analysis, light microscopy, and gas …

The transition to agriculture-based economies and sedentary lifeways during the Neolithic
brought significant changes in oral health and diet. Despite the influence of physiological …

Although there are many methods for reconstructing diets of the past, detailed taxon
identification is still challenging, and most plants hardly remain at a site. In this study, we …

Plant records reveal remarkable evidence about past environments and human cultures.
Exploiting dental calculus analysis and using a combined approach of microscopy and gas …

Archaeological studies have hypothesized that the diversification of production activities was
an important adaptive strategy of seasonally mobile herders in the Eurasian steppe belt. The …

Human responses to climate change have long been at the heart of discussions of past
economic, social, and political change in the Nile Valley of northeastern Africa. Following the …

Aza-Michael reaction was successfully carried out by using a copper fluorapatite (CuFAP)
catalyst. The reaction of piperidine and cyclohexenone using CuFAP resulted in 70 …

In this contribution, we investigated the role of plants in the prehistoric community of Casale
del Dolce (Anagni, FR, central Italy), through microparticles recovered from dental calculus …