Dental wash: a problematic method for extracting microfossils from teeth

Boyadjian, Célia; Eggers, Sabine; Reinhard, Karl J.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2006.12.012

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“…As with other studies of dental calculus that have attempted to recover both Starch grains and phytoliths (e.g., Boyadjian et al, 2007;Lalueza Fox and Pérez-Pérez, 1994;Lalueza Fox et al, 1996;Juan-Tresserras et al, 1997;Scott Cummings and Magennis, 1997), we have found that human calculus contains more starches than phytoliths.…”

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Using plant microfossils from dental calculus to recover human diet: a case study from Tell al-Raqā'i, Syria

Henry

Piperno

2008

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…Despite this considerable potential, some questions exist about the best methods for sampling calculus, while at the same time preventing damage to the teeth (Boyadjian et al, 2007).…”

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Using plant microfossils from dental calculus to recover human diet: a case study from Tell al-Raqā'i, Syria

Henry

Piperno

2008

Journal of Archaeological Science

191

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“…In multiple studies, both modern and ancient dental calculus has been demonstrated to entrap food remains, such as starches and phytoliths (Armitage, 1975;Boyadjian et al, 2007;Henry and Piperno, 2008;Piperno and Dillehay, 2008). These food particles can provide information on plant matter that entered the mouth during life.…”

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Neanderthal diets in central and southeastern Mediterranean Iberia

Salazar‐García

Power

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et al. 2013

Quaternary International

116

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a b s t r a c tDuring recent decades, Neanderthal diet has been a major research topic in palaeoanthropology. This has been accelerated by the maturation of different techniques, which have produced a plethora of new information. However, this proliferation of data has led to confusing and contradictory results. Furthermore, most of the ecological dietary studies have been carried out on specimens drawn from different time periods and regions, almost exclusively those characterized by cold, open environmental conditions. Subsistence models based on these fragmentary data have been applied to Neanderthals living in a variety of different regions and environments, even though their dietary strategies may have been as variable as regions they inhabited. In this paper we integrate different dietary approaches (studies of the zooarchaeology, stable isotopes and plant remains) from the central and southeastern Mediterranean coast of Iberia in order to develop a broader and more complex picture of Neanderthal diet in different Mediterranean environmental conditions. Our results suggest that there may have been some minor dietary variation due to climatic or environmental differences, but that Neanderthal diet focussed on large terrestrial game, supplemented by plant foods when these were available.Ó 2013 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved. Neanderthal dietary ecologyThe dietary behaviours of Neanderthals and the relationship between their diet and their social organization, technological abilities, and even their eventual disappearance, have been hotly debated in the anthropological literature. Examining the diets of Neanderthals requires the synthesis of data that have been collected by numerous researchers over the last 150 years. In many cases, the differences between Neanderthal and early modern human diets have been emphasized, at the expense of cogent discussion of the variation within each group. Early modern humans lived in a wide variety of environmental contexts and likely pursued a variety of behaviours throughout this range of environments. The exclusively Eurasian distribution of Neanderthals did not include as many environments, but neither was it the exclusively cold Arctic climate that many have supposed it to be. A more detailed examination of the Neanderthal range and the effects of shifting global climates reveals that this group would have been exposed to a diverse range of environments (Hoffecker, 2009;MacDonald et al., 2009). Just as modern human dietary behaviour likely varied with environments, so, too, can we predict that Neanderthals had different diets in different environments.Our understanding of the diets of Neanderthals comes from three main lines of evidence. The first is the study of the human remains themselves, including the isotope signal recorded in their bones, the microwear on their teeth, and how factors of their lifehistory are related to diet. The second line of evidence includes the study of the remains of their food, in the form of animal and plant remains preserved ...

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“…It is also our purpose to present some basic principles of dental calculus analysis based on observations of variation among the 53 teeth included in our study. We present herein refinements that resolved the problems encountered by Reinhard et al (2001) and Boyadjian et al (2007) from the work of Wesolowski (2007). We refer to Wesolowski (2007) for a detailed presentation of the pathological significance of microresidues for understanding dental disease.…”

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