🏆 Winner 1/4 of the medac research award: An international team reconstructed #StoneAgeMolecules from ancient #DentalCalculus using bioinformatic methods from #DNAFragments of previously unknown #bacteria from the #past! 🦷💡 #MedacResearch #ResearchAward

👉 Full publication here: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf5300

@unijena
@Harvard
@LeibnizHKI

Propositions 5-8 relate to the field of archaeological #DentalCalculus research as a whole.

5. Advances in dietary research on dental calculus will be led by the adoption of scientific methods and experimentation from a variety of disciplines and close collaboration with experts; it will not come about by an obsession with finding the 'oldest' example of [insert dietary or non-dietary practice here].

🥙 Looking for a healthy #diet? @cristiani_ema & team @hidden_foods brought the 1st concrete evidence that #prehistoric hunter-gatherers ate #starchy #plantfoods.
👉 https://bit.ly/3R5XnLk
#carbohydrate #dentalcalculus #ethnoarchaeology #biochemistry
@CORDIS_EU @SapienzaRoma

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1565233032239677441