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The dental calculus metabolome in modern and historic samples.
Irina M Velsko, Katherine A Overmyer, Camilla Speller, Lauren Klaus, Matthew J Collins, Louise Loe, Laurent AF Frantz, Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan, Cecil M Lewis, Juan Bautista Rodriguez Martinez, Eros Chaves, Joshua J Coon, Greger Larson, Christina Warinner
Nov 22, 2018
INTRODUCTION: Dental calculus is a mineralized microbial dental plaque biofilm that forms throughout life by precipitation of salivary calcium salts. Successive cycles of dental plaque growth and calcification make it an...
Direct evidence of milk consumption from ancient human dental calculus.
C Warinner, J Hendy, C Speller, E Cappellini, R Fischer, C Trachsel, J Arneborg, N Lynnerup, OE Craig, DM Swallow, A Fotakis, RJ Christensen, JV Olsen, A Liebert, N Montalva, S Fiddyment, S Charlton, M Mackie, A Canci, A Bouwman, F Rühli, MTP Gilbert, MJ Collins
Nov 22, 2018
Milk is a major food of global economic importance, and its consumption is regarded as a classic example of gene-culture evolution. Humans have exploited animal milk as a food resource for at least 8500 years, but the origins...
Climate archaeology
This article provides a commentary responding to the papers collected together for the special issue Modern Climate Change and the Practice of Archaeology. Responding to the challenges of climate change and global environmental...
Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization.
Peter Turchin, Thomas E Currie, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Kevin Feeney, Daniel Mullins, Daniel Hoyer, Christina Collins, Stephanie Grohmann, Patrick Savage, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Edward Turner, Agathe Dupeyron, Enrico Cioni, Jenny Reddish, Jill Levine, Greine Jordan, Eva Brandl, Alice Williams, Rudolf Cesaretti, Marta Krueger, Alessandro Ceccarelli, Joe Figliulo-Rosswurm, Po-Ju Tuan, Peter Peregrine, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Nikolay Kradin, Andrey Korotayev, Alessio Palmisano, David Baker, Julye Bidmead, Peter Bol, David Christian, Connie Cook, Alan Covey, Gary Feinman, Árni Daníel Júlíusson, Axel Kristinsson, John Miksic, Ruth Mostern, Cameron Petrie, Peter Rudiak-Gould, Barend Ter Haar, Vesna Wallace, Victor Mair, Liye Xie, John Baines, Elizabeth Bridges, Joseph Manning, Bruce Lockhart, Amy Bogaard, Charles Spencer
Mar 20, 2018
Do human societies from around the world exhibit similarities in the way that they are structured, and show commonalities in the ways that they have evolved? These are long-standing questions that have proven difficult to...
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In Africa ERC Funded Project (ERC295907). Research was carried out through affiliation with the National Museums of Kenya (NMK/ ESC/PAL/w/VOL.1), with permission from the National Council of Science and Technology, Government of...
New perspectives on Neanderthal dispersal and turnover from Stajnia Cave (Poland).
Andrea Picin, Mateja Hajdinjak, Wioletta Nowaczewska, Stefano Benazzi, Mikołaj Urbanowski, Adrian Marciszak, Helen Fewlass, Marjolein D Bosch, Paweł Socha, Krzysztof Stefaniak, Marcin Żarski, Andrzej Wiśniewski, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Adam Nadachowski, Sahra Talamo
Mar 08, 2022
The Micoquian is the broadest and longest enduring cultural facies of the Late Middle Palaeolithic that spread across the periglacial and boreal environments of Europe between Eastern France, Poland, and Northern Caucasus. Here...
Palaeoproteomic analyses of dog palaeofaeces reveal a preserved dietary and host digestive proteome.
Anne Kathrine W Runge, Jessica Hendy, Kristine K Richter, Edouard Masson-MacLean, Kate Britton, Meaghan Mackie, Krista McGrath, Matthew Collins, Enrico Cappellini, Camilla Speller
Oct 29, 2021
Reverse engineering of ceramic anthropomorphic figurines from the Tumaco archaeological tradition in southwest Colombia.
Traditional studies of archaeological ceramics in Colombia have been largely based on visual and stylistic analyses. Here we introduce frameworks and concepts of reverse engineering as a complementary strategy to develop...
Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers.
Cosimo Posth, He Yu, Ayshin Ghalichi, Hélène Rougier, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Yilei Huang, Harald Ringbauer, Adam B Rohrlach, Kathrin Nägele, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Rita Radzeviciute, Tiago Ferraz, Alexander Stoessel, Rezeda Tukhbatova, Dorothée G Drucker, Martina Lari, Alessandra Modi, Stefania Vai, Tina Saupe, Christiana L Scheib, Giulio Catalano, Luca Pagani, Sahra Talamo, Helen Fewlass, Laurent Klaric, André Morala, Mathieu Rué, Stéphane Madelaine, Laurent Crépin, Jean-Baptiste Caverne, Emmy Bocaege, Stefano Ricci, Francesco Boschin, Priscilla Bayle, Bruno Maureille, Foni Le Brun-Ricalens, Jean-Guillaume Bordes, Gregorio Oxilia, Eugenio Bortolini, Olivier Bignon-Lau, Grégory Debout, Michel Orliac, Antoine Zazzo, Vitale Sparacello, Elisabetta Starnini, Luca Sineo, Johannes van der Plicht, Laure Pecqueur, Gildas Merceron, Géraldine Garcia, Jean-Michel Leuvrey, Coralie Bay Garcia, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Marta Połtowicz-Bobak, Dariusz Bobak, Mona Le Luyer, Paul Storm, Claudia Hoffmann, Jacek Kabaciński, Tatiana Filimonova, Svetlana Shnaider, Natalia Berezina, Borja González-Rabanal, Manuel R González Morales, Ana B Marín-Arroyo, Belén López, Carmen Alonso-Llamazares, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Caroline Polet, Ivan Jadin, Nicolas Cauwe, Joaquim Soler, Neus Coromina, Isaac Rufí, Richard Cottiaux, Geoffrey Clark, Lawrence G Straus, Marie-Anne Julien, Silvia Renhart, Dorothea Talaa, Stefano Benazzi, Matteo Romandini, Luc Amkreutz, Hervé Bocherens, Christoph Wißing, Sébastien Villotte, Javier Fernández-López de Pablo, Magdalena Gómez-Puche, Marco Aurelio Esquembre-Bebia, Pierre Bodu, Liesbeth Smits, Bénédicte Souffi, Rimantas Jankauskas, Justina Kozakaitė, Christophe Cupillard, Hartmut Benthien, Kurt Wehrberger, Ralf W Schmitz, Susanne C Feine, Tim Schüler, Corinne Thevenet, Dan Grigorescu, Friedrich Lüth, Andreas Kotula, Henny Piezonka, Franz Schopper, Jiří Svoboda, Sandra Sázelová, Andrey Chizhevsky, Aleksandr Khokhlov, Nicholas J Conard, Frédérique Valentin, Katerina Harvati, Patrick Semal, Bettina Jungklaus, Alexander Suvorov, Rick Schulting, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Kristiina Mannermaa, Alexandra Buzhilova, Thomas Terberger, David Caramelli, Eveline Altena, Wolfgang Haak, Johannes Krause
Mar 02, 2023
Organization of residential space, site function variability, and seasonality of activities among MIS 5 Iberian Neandertals.
Whether ethnoarcheological models of hunter-gatherer mobility, landscape use, and structuration of the inhabited space are relevant to the archeology of Neandertals and the Middle Paleolithic remains controversial. The thin...
Restoring Voice to the Mute Clay: Sumer and the Magoffin Collection Cuneiform Tablets
Benjamin Robertson
Jan 01, 0001
This thesis contains a history of Sumer from the earliest known periods through the fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur, a detailed investigation into the lives and careers of Sumerian scribes, a history of modern Mesopotamian...
Sumer Sumerian Magoffin Cuneiform Ur Archaeology Archaeological Anthropology History History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Islamic World and Near East History
Published by: Winthrop University
A Late Holocene community burial area
Over several decades, human skeletal remains from at least twelve individuals (males, females, children and infants) were recovered from a small area (ca. 10 x 10 m) on the eastern shore of Table Bay, Cape Town, near the mouth...
Estimating mobility using sparse data
Liisa Loog, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Mirna Kovacevic, Andrea Manica, Anders Eriksson, Mark G Thomas
Mar 20, 2018
Screening archaeological bone for palaeogenetic and palaeoproteomic studies.
Ioannis Kontopoulos, Kirsty Penkman, Victoria E Mullin, Laura Winkelbach, Martina Unterländer, Amelie Scheu, Susanne Kreutzer, Henrik B Hansen, Ashot Margaryan, Matthew D Teasdale, Birgit Gehlen, Martin Street, Niels Lynnerup, Ioannis Liritzis, Adamantios Sampson, Christina Papageorgopoulou, Morten E Allentoft, Joachim Burger, Daniel G Bradley, Matthew J Collins
Oct 29, 2021
The recovery and analysis of ancient DNA and protein from archaeological bone is time-consuming and expensive to carry out, while it involves the partial or complete destruction of valuable or rare specimens. The fields of...
Of revenue without rulers
Adam Green
May 11, 2022
The archaeology of collective action addresses a widespread myth about the past–that premodern societies were despotic, and only
produced public goods when everyday people convinced a separate and distinct ruling class to...
Assessing the degradation of ancient milk proteins through site-specific deamidation patterns.
Abigail Ramsøe, Mia Crispin, Meaghan Mackie, Krista McGrath, Roman Fischer, Beatrice Demarchi, Matthew J Collins, Jessica Hendy, Camilla Speller
Feb 02, 2022
The origins, prevalence and nature of dairying have been long debated by archaeologists. Within the last decade, new advances in high-resolution mass spectrometry have allowed for the direct detection of milk proteins from...
Early modern human settlement of Europe north of the Alps occurred 43,500 years ago in a cold steppe-type environment.
Philip R Nigst, Paul Haesaerts, Freddy Damblon, Christa Frank-Fellner, Carolina Mallol, Bence Viola, Michael Götzinger, Laura Niven, Gerhard Trnka, Jean-Jacques Hublin
Sep 23, 2014
The shaping of human diversity
Marta Mirazón Lahr
Oct 17, 2016
The Arrival of Siberian Ancestry Connecting the Eastern Baltic to Uralic Speakers further East.
Lehti Saag, Margot Laneman, Liivi Varul, Martin Malve, Heiki Valk, Maria A Razzak, Ivan G Shirobokov, Valeri I Khartanovich, Elena R Mikhaylova, Alena Kushniarevich, Christiana Lyn Scheib, Anu Solnik, Tuuli Reisberg, Jüri Parik, Lauri Saag, Ene Metspalu, Siiri Rootsi, Francesco Montinaro, Maido Remm, Reedik Mägi, Eugenia D'Atanasio, Enrico Ryunosuke Crema, David Díez-Del-Molino, Mark G Thomas, Aivar Kriiska, Toomas Kivisild, Richard Villems, Valter Lang, Mait Metspalu, Kristiina Tambets
May 03, 2019
In this study, we compare the genetic ancestry of individuals from two as yet genetically unstudied cultural traditions in Estonia in the context of available modern and ancient datasets: 15 from the Late Bronze Age stone-cist...
Material and Animal Agency in Inuit Ontology
Maryssa Barras
Nov 10, 2018
Ontological analyses of archaeological remains have provided archaeologists with new insight on how to effectively interpret past peoples. By considering recent alternative methods of interpretation in experimental archaeology...
The history of climate and society
Abstract Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently...
Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago.
Eugene I Smith, Zenobia Jacobs, Racheal Johnsen, Minghua Ren, Erich C Fisher, Simen Oestmo, Jayne Wilkins, Jacob A Harris, Panagiotis Karkanas, Shelby Fitch, Amber Ciravolo, Deborah Keenan, Naomi Cleghorn, Christine S Lane, Thalassa Matthews, Curtis W Marean
May 25, 2018
Approximately 74 thousand years ago (ka), the Toba caldera erupted in Sumatra. Since the magnitude of this eruption was first established, its effects on climate, environment and humans have been debated. Here we describe the...
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