Search Results - "Tromp, Monica"
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Fossils, fish and tropical forests: prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers of Oceania
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (25-04-2022)“…Oceania is a key region for studying human dispersals, adaptations and interactions with other hominin populations. Although archaeological evidence now…”
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Domestication and large animal interactions: Skeletal trauma in northern Vietnam during the hunter-gatherer Da But period
Published in PloS one (04-09-2019)“…The aim of this paper is to test the hypothesis that healed traumatic injuries in the pre-Neolithic assemblage of Con Co Ngua, northern Vietnam (c. 6800-6200…”
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Between foraging and farming: strategic responses to the Holocene Thermal Maximum in Southeast Asia
Published in Antiquity (01-08-2018)“…Large, ‘complex’ pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherer communities thrived in southern China and northern Vietnam, contemporaneous with the expansion of farming…”
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Differentiating dietary and non-dietary microfossils extracted from human dental calculus: the importance of sweet potato to ancient diet on Rapa Nui
Published in Journal of archaeological science (01-02-2015)“…Human dental calculus is an excellent target for examining the plant component of ancient diets. Microfossils become imbedded within dental calculus throughout…”
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Relief food subsistence revealed by microparticle and proteomic analyses of dental calculus from victims of the Great Irish Famine
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-09-2019)“…Food and diet were class markers in 19th-century Ireland, which became evident as nearly 1 million people, primarily the poor and destitute, died as a…”
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Corynocarpus laevigatus: Where art thou? Finding evidence of this elusive tree crop
Published in Review of palaeobotany and palynology (01-11-2016)“…The drupe of Corynocarpus laevigatus was an important source of storable starch and carbohydrate for Maori and Moriori. However direct evidence of the drupe in…”
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Diet, Geography and Drinking Water in Polynesia: Microfossil Research from Archaeological Human Dental Calculus, Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Published in International journal of osteoarchaeology (01-09-2014)“…ABSTRACT Microfossil analysis of human dental calculus provides consumption‐specific and archaeologically relevant data for evaluating diet and subsistence in…”
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Inter- and intra-observer variation in phytolith morphometry
Published in Annals of botany (26-07-2024)“…Archaeobotanists and palaeoecologists extensively use geometric morphometrics to identify plant opal phytoliths. Particularly when applied to assemblages of…”
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Morphometric analysis of phytoliths: recommendations towards standardization from the International Committee for Phytolith Morphometrics
Published in Journal of archaeological science (01-04-2016)“…Morphometric analysis (measurements of size and shape) has become a significant research tool in phytolith studies. The International Phytolith Society (IPS)…”
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EDTA decalcification of dental calculus as an alternate means of microparticle extraction from archaeological samples
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An image analysis protocol for the quantification of interglobular dentine in anthropological tooth sections
Published in American journal of physical anthropology (01-01-2021)“…The histological identification of interglobular dentine (IGD) in archeological human remains with macroscopic evidence of rickets has opened a promising new…”
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Exploring archaeogenetic studies of dental calculus to shed light on past human migrations in Oceania
Published in Nature communications (19-10-2023)“…Abstract The Pacific islands have experienced multiple waves of human migrations, providing a case study for exploring the potential of using the microbiome to…”
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Multiproxy isotopic analyses of human skeletal material from Rapa Nui: Evaluating the evidence from carbonates, bulk collagen, and amino acids
Published in American journal of physical anthropology (01-08-2019)“…Objectives Stable isotope ratio analysis of bulk bone collagen dominates research into past diet; however, bone carbonate and compound specific isotope…”
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Origins of equine dentistry
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-07-2018)“…From the American West to the steppes of Eurasia, the domestic horse transformed human societies, providing rapid transport, communication, and military power,…”
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Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes: pre-Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range
Published in World archaeology (08-08-2021)“…In this paper we review the growing evidence of anthropogenic landscapespresent in the semi-deciduous neotropical forest biomes of eastern NW Argentina,which…”
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Human dispersal and plant processing in the Pacific 55 000–50 000 years ago
Published in Antiquity (01-08-2024)“…The dynamics of our species’ dispersal into the Pacific remains intensely debated. The authors present archaeological investigations in the Raja Ampat Islands,…”
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Exploitation and utilization of tropical rainforests indicated in dental calculus of ancient Oceanic Lapita culture colonists
Published in Nature human behaviour (01-05-2020)“…Remote Oceania, which largely consists of islands covered in tropical forests, was the last region on earth to be successfully colonized by humans, beginning…”
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Hydatid disease (Echinococcosis granulosis) diagnosis from skeletal osteolytic lesions in an early seventh‐millennium BP forager community from preagricultural northern Vietnam
Published in American journal of biological anthropology (01-01-2022)“…Objectives Con Co Ngua is a complex, sedentary forager site from northern Vietnam dating to the early seventh millennium BP. Prior research identified a…”
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The Difficult Place of Deserted Coasts in Archaeology: New Archaeological Research on Cooks Beach (Pukaki), Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand
Published in Journal of island and coastal archaeology (02-01-2018)“…Sites which have been occupied semi-continuously in the past present some inherent difficulties for archaeology. Here we present new research from a coastal…”
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