Microparticles from dental calculus disclose paleoenvironmental and palaeoecological records.

ABSTRACT: Plants have always represented a key element in landscape delineation. Indeed, plant diversity, whose distribution is influenced by geographic/climatic variability, has affected both environmental and human ecology. The present contribution represents a multi-proxy study focused on the detection of starch, pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs in ancient dental calculus collected from pre-historical individuals buried at La Sassa and Pila archaeological sites (Central Italy). The collected record suggested the potential use of plant taxa by the people living in Central Italy during the Copper-Middle Bronze Age and expanded the body of evidence reported by previous palynological and palaeoecological studies. The application of a microscopic approach provided information about domesticated crop

SUBMITTER: D'Agostino A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10891416 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature