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Investigating Plant Micro-Remains Embedded in Dental Calculus of the Phoenician Inhabitants of Motya (Sicily, Italy) [PDF]

Plants, 2020
Plant records reveal remarkable evidence about past environments and human cultures. Exploiting dental calculus analysis and using a combined approach of microscopy and gas chromatography mass spectrometry, our research outlines dietary ecology and ...
Alessia D’Agostino, Antonella Canini, Gabriele Di Marco, Lorenzo Nigro, Federica Spagnoli, Angelo Gismondi   +5 more
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Roots, Tissues, Cells and Fragments—How to Characterize Peat from Drained and Rewetted Fens [PDF]

Soil Systems, 2020
We present analyses of macroscopic and microscopic remains as a tool to characterise sedge fen peats. We use it to describe peat composition and stages of peat decomposition, to assess the success of rewetting of a formerly drained fen, and to understand
Dierk Michaelis, Almut Mrotzek, John Couwenberg   +2 more
doaj   +9 more sources

Application of Micro-Computed Tomography for the Estimation of the Post-Mortem Interval of Human Skeletal Remains

Biology, 2022
It is challenging to estimate the post-mortem interval (PMI) of skeletal remains within a forensic context. As a result of their interactions with the environment, bones undergo several chemical and physical changes after death.
Verena-Maria Schmidt, Philipp Zelger, Claudia Woess, Anton K. Pallua, Rohit Arora, Gerald Degenhart, Andrea Brunner, Bettina Zelger, Michael Schirmer, Walter Rabl, Johannes D. Pallua   +10 more
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Assessing use and suitability of scanning electron microscopy in the analysis of micro remains in dental calculus

Journal of Archaeological Science, 2014
Dental calculus is increasingly recognized as a major reservoir of dietary information. Palaeodietary studies using plant and animal micro remains (e.g. phytoliths, pollen, sponge spicules, and starch grains) trapped in calculus have the potential to revise our knowledge of the dietary role of plants in past populations.
Robert C Power, Domingo C Salazar-García, Roman M Wittig   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Reconstructing dietary practices at Tell Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon) during the Bronze and Iron Age III / Persian to Hellenistic periods using plant micro-remains from dental calculus and stable isotope analysis of bone collagen. [PDF]

Archaeol Anthropol Sci
AbstractTell Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon) was an important Bronze Age urban center that dominated one of the central crossroads of the Ancient Near East, connecting Egypt and the Levant with northern Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Syria, as well as the interior with the Mediterranean coast.
Gur-Arieh S, Eisenmann S, Henry AG, Lucas M, Lenz D, Paxinos P, Weber H, Morandi LF, Stone JR, Schultz M, Roberts P, Stockhammer PW.   +11 more
europepmc   +10 more sources

Marine Micro-Remains on Holy Maria-Magdalena’s Hair, Studied by Scanning Electron Microscopy and Elemental Analysis

Archaeological Discovery, 2019
As a new contribution to the scientific knowledge of Holy Maria-Magdalena’s remains, we have studied by SEM-EDX some mineral particles and micro-organism debris adhering to her hair. We found on it mineral particles of gypsum, aragonite and salt, algae fragments, microorganism as diatoms, coccoliths and tintinnides, and micro-debris of Crustaceans ...
Gérard Lucotte
exaly   +3 more sources

Human Diet Patterns During the Qijia Cultural Period: Integrated Evidence of Stable Isotopes and Plant Micro-remains From the Lajia Site, Northwest China

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022
The diet of prehistoric humans in the Qijia period (4,400–3,500 BP) was significantly changed by the advent of dry agriculture and food globalization. However, it is yet to be proven whether wild plants were exploited despite the cultivation of millet ...
Zhikun Ma, Shu Liu, Zhao Li, Maolin Ye, Xiujia Huan   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Analysis of plant micro-remains and organic acid residues reveals the dietary conditions at the Chengyan site during the early Yangshao Culture in western Henan, central China

Quaternary International
The early Yangshao period (ca. 7.0–6.0 ka BP) is a pivotal transition stage for prehistoric human subsistence strategies from hunting and gathering to farming and husbandry. The western Henan Province constitutes the core area of Yangshao Culture. To investigate the dietary conditions of the early Yangshao ancestors in this area, analysis of plant ...
Xingtao Wei, Jingwen Liao, Yuchun Wang   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Protocolos y avances en el estudio de residuos de pipas arqueológicas de Argentina. Aportes para el entendimiento de metodologías actuales y prácticas pasadas

Estudios Atacameños, 2015
Este trabajo presenta el análisis de residuos recuperados en pipas arqueológicas de Argentina, once ejemplares provenientes del noroes­te, con un rango temporal del 3600 a 1390 AP, y seis históricos de la provincia de Buenos Aires.
Verónica S. Lema, Diego Andreoni, Aylen Capparelli, Gabriela Ortiz, Romina Spano, Marcos N. Quesada, Flavia Zorzi   +6 more
doaj   +8 more sources

Archaeobotany in an era of change and challenge: potential and fragility of macro- and micro-remains

World Archaeology, 2023
Apart from helping us understand past communities’ response to climate change and their plant management resilience mechanisms, archaeobotanical information may also serve as a basis to rethink our economic system and implement new solutions to current challenges (e.g. re-adopt forgotten crops or implement circular economy models).
M Berihuete-Azorin, C Kerfant, E Allué, A Burguet-Coca, F Burjachs, I Expósito Barea, T Fernández Iriarte, B Garay Palacios, J Revelles, A Robledo, D Rodríguez Antón, C Speciale   +11 more
openaire   +3 more sources