Dental calculus reveals unique insights into food items, cooking and plant processing in prehistoric central Sudan.

Accessing information on plant consumption before the adoption of agriculture is challenging. However, there is growing evidence for use of locally available wild plants from an increasing number of pre-agrarian sites, suggesting broad ecological knowledge. The extraction of chemical compounds and m...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stephen Buckley, Donatella Usai, Tina Jakob, Anita Radini, Karen Hardy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4100759?pdf=render