Search Results - "Radini, Anita"
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Dental calculus reveals unique insights into food items, cooking and plant processing in prehistoric central Sudan
Published in PloS one (16-07-2014)“…Accessing information on plant consumption before the adoption of agriculture is challenging. However, there is growing evidence for use of locally available…”
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Dental calculus reveals Mesolithic foragers in the Balkans consumed domesticated plant foods
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (13-09-2016)“…Researchers agree that domesticated plants were introduced into southeast Europe from southwest Asia as a part of a Neolithic “package,” which included…”
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Proteomic evidence of dietary sources in ancient dental calculus
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (18-07-2018)“…Archaeological dental calculus has emerged as a rich source of ancient biomolecules, including proteins. Previous analyses of proteins extracted from ancient…”
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Ancient lipids document continuity in the use of early hunter–gatherer pottery through 9,000 years of Japanese prehistory
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12-04-2016)“…The earliest pots in the world are from East Asia and date to the Late Pleistocene. However, ceramic vessels were only produced in large numbers during the…”
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Plant, pigment, and bone processing in the Neolithic of northern Arabia–New evidence from Use-wear analysis of grinding tools at Jebel Oraf
Published in PloS one (04-10-2023)“…Archaeological sites with surface hearths are a ubiquitous feature across the arid zones of the Arabian interior. At Jebel Oraf, in the Jubbah basin of the…”
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Wild cereal grain consumption among Early Holocene foragers of the Balkans predates the arrival of agriculture
Published in eLife (01-12-2021)“…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…”
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Exploring late Paleolithic and Mesolithic diet in the Eastern Alpine region of Italy through multiple proxies
Published in American journal of physical anthropology (01-02-2021)“…Objectives The analysis of prehistoric human dietary habits is key for understanding the effects of paleoenvironmental changes on the evolution of cultural and…”
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Lithic Residue Survival and Characterisation at Star Carr: a burial experiment
Published in Internet archaeology (2016)“…A modern burial experiment was devised to test microscopic residue survival in acidic peat and slightly acidic clay soils at the Early Mesolithic site of Star…”
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Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650: A prosopographical approach to a skeletal assemblage
Published in PloS one (21-12-2020)“…After the Battle Dunbar between English and Scottish forces in 1650, captured Scottish soldiers were imprisoned in Durham and many hundreds died there within a…”
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Bioarchaeological and paleogenomic profiling of the unusual Neolithic burial from Grotta di Pietra Sant’Angelo (Calabria, Italy)
Published in Scientific reports (24-07-2023)“…The Neolithic burial of Grotta di Pietra Sant’Angelo (CS) represents a unique archaeological finding for the prehistory of Southern Italy. The unusual…”
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Social food here and hereafter: Multiproxy analysis of gender-specific food consumption in conversion period inhumation cemetery at Kukruse, NE-Estonia
Published in Journal of archaeological science (01-09-2018)“…Current approaches in diet-related bioarchaeological research focus on establishing major developments in ancient societies, whilst small-scale and…”
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The identification of archaeological eggshell using peptide markers
Published in Science and technology of archaeological research (01-01-2017)“…Avian eggshell survives well in alkaline and neutral soils, but its potential as an archaeological resource remains largely unexplored, mainly due to…”
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Beyond dirty teeth: Integrating dental calculus studies with osteoarchaeological parameters
Published in Quaternary international (20-04-2023)“…The study of ancient human dental calculus (mineralized dental plaque, also known as tartar) is becoming increasingly important in osteoarchaeology, human…”
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First direct evidence of wild plant grinding process from the Holocene Sahara: Use-wear and plant micro-residue analysis on ground stone tools from the Farafra Oasis, Egypt
Published in Quaternary international (30-07-2020)“…The excavation of the 8000-year-old Hidden Valley village has highlighted the importance of wild plant exploitation in the Mid-Holocene contexts of the Farafra…”
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From Food to Environments: Advances in Ancient Human Dental Calculus Research
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Occupational patterns in Anglo‐Saxon and Medieval East Midlands, England: Insights from activity‐related skeletal changes
Published in International journal of osteoarchaeology (01-05-2023)“…This paper examines five assemblages from the East Midlands, England, assessing activity‐related skeletal changes with the aim of exploring differences in…”
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Diet and environment 1.2 million years ago revealed through analysis of dental calculus from Europe’s oldest hominin at Sima del Elefante, Spain
Published in Die Naturwissenschaften (01-02-2017)“…Sima del Elefante, Atapuerca, Spain contains one of the earliest hominin fragments yet known in Europe, dating to 1.2 Ma. Dental calculus from a hominin molar…”
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Beyond food: The multiple pathways for inclusion of materials into ancient dental calculus
Published in American journal of physical anthropology (01-01-2017)“…Dental calculus (mineralized dental plaque) was first recognised as a potentially useful archaeological deposit in the 1970s, though interest in human dental…”
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More than what we eat: Investigating an alternative pathway for intact starch granules in dental calculus using Experimental Archaeology
Published in Quaternary international (20-04-2023)“…Starch granules and other plant tissues are commonly found as part of the microdebris assemblage analysed within dental calculus. These are often interpreted…”
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Dental calculus in the industrial age: Human dental calculus in the Post-Medieval period, a case study from industrial Manchester
Published in Quaternary international (20-04-2023)“…The analysis of dental calculus (mineralised dental plaque) has become an increasingly important facet of bioarchaeological research. Although microscopic…”
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