The field of palaeomicrobiology is dramatically expanding thanks to recent advances in high-
throughput biomolecular sequencing, which allows unprecedented access to the …

Neanderthals have been commonly depicted as top predators who met their nutritional
needs by focusing entirely on meat. This information mostly derives from faunal assemblage …

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 …

Despite more than a century of detailed investigation of the Magdalenian period in Northern
Iberia, our understanding of the diets during this period is limited. Methodologies for the …

Neanderthals are known primarily from their habitation of Western Eurasia, but they also
populated large expanses of Northern Asia for thousands of years. Owing to a sparse …

Dental calculus is increasingly recognized as a major reservoir of dietary information.
Palaeodietary studies using plant and animal micro remains (eg phytoliths, pollen, sponge …

Stable isotope and dental-microwear analysis are methods commonly used to reconstruct
dietary habits in modern and ancient human populations. However, it is rare that they are …

Studies of contemporary populations have demonstrated an association between decreased
dietary diversity due to resource scarcity or underutilization and an increase in diseases …

Dental calculus has been shown to be a repository of a variety of exogenous organic
materials, including bacterial DNA, proteins, phytoliths, and starch grains. Here we show that …

Stable isotope‐based dietary reconstructions of late Holocene agriculturalists from Sabana
de Bogotá (Colombia) are limited to the late Muisca period. Accordingly, the dietary patterns …