Earliest evidence for caries and exploitation of starchy plant foods in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 954-959

  Humphrey, Louise T ^a   De Groote, Isabelle ^a,b   Morales, Jacob ^c,d   Barton, Nick ^e   Collcutt, Simon ^f   Ramsey, Christopher Bronk ^g   Bouzouggar, Abdeljalil ^h,i  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f Oxford Archaeological Associates Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h BP   (Morocco)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STARCH;

ARTICLE; CEREAL; DENTAL CARIES; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD PROCESSING; HARVESTING; HUMAN; MESOLITHIC; MOROCCO; MOUTH FLORA; NUT; PLEISTOCENE; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STONE AGE; TOOTH; WILD PLANT;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CARBOHYDRATES; DENTAL CARIES; DIETARY SUCROSE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD SUPPLY; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOROCCO; PALEODONTOLOGY; PLANTS, EDIBLE; PREVALENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 84892931308     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318176111     Document Type: Article

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