Nutrition and health in human evolution–past to present

KW Alt, A Al-Ahmad, JP Woelber - Nutrients, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Anyone who wants to understand the biological nature of humans and their special
characteristics must look far back into evolutionary history. Today's way of life is drastically …

Dental microwear texture analysis in mammalian ecology

I Calandra, G Merceron - Mammal Review, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Neoecology and paleoecology both seek to answer the same questions, albeit using
different material, at different time scales and with different limitations. Nevertheless, too …

[كتاب][B] Paleoethnobotany: a handbook of procedures

DM Pearsall - 2016‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

Stable isotope analysis: a tool for studying past diet, demography, and life history

MA Katzenberg, AL Waters‐Rist - Biological anthropology of …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope analysis is a well‐established tool for studying past human remains.
Applications have grown exponentially in the past 15 years, with studies focusing on living …

[كتاب][B] Everyone eats: Understanding food and culture

EN Anderson - 2014‏ - books.google.com
Illuminates the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment
Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices …

[كتاب][B] Uncorking the past: the quest for wine, beer, and other alcoholic beverages

PE McGovern - 2009‏ - books.google.com
In a lively gastronomical tour around the world and through the millennia, Uncorking the
Past tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating search for booze …

Isotopic evidence of early hominin diets

M Sponheimer, Z Alemseged… - Proceedings of the …, 2013‏ - National Acad Sciences
Carbon isotope studies of early hominins from southern Africa showed that their diets
differed markedly from the diets of extant apes. Only recently, however, has a major influx of …

Beyond food: The multiple pathways for inclusion of materials into ancient dental calculus

A Radini, E Nikita, S Buckley… - American journal of …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Dental calculus (mineralized dental plaque) was first recognised as a potentially useful
archaeological deposit in the 1970s, though interest in human dental calculus as a resource …

Wild chimpanzee behavior suggests that a savanna-mosaic habitat did not support the emergence of hominin terrestrial bipedalism

RC Drummond-Clarke, TL Kivell, L Sarringhaus… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
Bipedalism, a defining feature of the human lineage, is thought to have evolved as forests
retreated in the late Miocene-Pliocene. Chimpanzees living in analogous habitats to early …

Ancient DNA analysis of dental calculus

LS Weyrich, K Dobney, A Cooper - Journal of Human Evolution, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Dental calculus (calcified tartar or plaque) is today widespread on modern human teeth
around the world. A combination of soft starchy foods, changing acidity of the oral …