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Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain.
PLoS One
January 2025
Archaeology, Environmental Changes and Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Megalithism has been repetitively tied to specialised herding economies in Iberia, particularly in the mountainous areas of the Basque Country. Legaire Sur, in the uplands of Álava region, is a recently excavated passage tomb (megalithic monument) that held a minimum number of 25 individuals. This study analysed the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and strontium isotope ratios of 18 individuals, in a multi-tissue sampling study (successional tooth enamel sampling, incremental dentine sampling, and bulk bone collagen sampling).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA comprehensive dataset and image-set for exploring buccal dental microwear in late prehistory farming groups from northeastern Iberian Peninsula.
Data Brief
December 2024
Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Paseo Sierra de Atapuerca 3, 09002 Burgos, Spain.
This data article presents a comprehensive buccal dental microwear raw database, accompanied by all corresponding archaeological sample micrographs acquired through a ZEISS Axioscope A1 optical microscopy (OM). The dataset includes teeth specimens from 88 adult individuals, representing eight distinct groups spanning the Middle-Late Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age from the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. These groups include Cova de l'Avi, Cova de Can Sadurní, Cova de la Guineu, Cova Foradada, Cova del Trader, Roc de les Orenetes, Cova del Gegant, and Cova dels Galls Carboners.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMulti-method dating reveals 200 ka of Middle Palaeolithic occupation at Maras rock shelter, Rhône Valley, France.
Sci Rep
September 2024
Histoire Naturelle de l'Homme Préhistorique, UMR 7194 CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
The emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic, and its variability over time and space are key questions in the field of prehistoric archaeology. Many sites have been documented in the south-eastern margins of the Massif central and the middle Rhône valley, a migration path that connects Northern Europe with the Mediterranean. Well-dated, long stratigraphic sequences are essential to understand Neanderthals dynamics and demise, and potential interactions with Homo sapiens in the area, such as the one displayed at the Maras rock shelter ("Abri du Maras").
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn experimental approach on dynamic occlusal fingerprint analysis to simulate use-wear localisation and development on stone tools.
Sci Rep
August 2024
TraCEr, MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, LEIZA, Neuwied, Germany.
Information about the use of stone tools in the past is encoded in the wear patterns left on their surface; however, post-depositional processes can modify and obstruct these traces. One aim in the field of lithic functional analysis is to develop methods to detect and quantify these traces on stone tools. The occlusal fingerprint analysis (OFA) is a well-established method in dental wear studies to virtually simulate dental occlusal (contact between teeth) stroke movements and thus locate and quantify the sequential contact between opposing tooth crowns.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFar away from home? Ancient DNA shows the presence of bicolored shrew () in Bronze Age Denmark.
Ecol Evol
July 2024
Trace and Environmental DNA (TrEnD) Laboratory, School of Molecular and Life Sciences Curtin University Bentley Western Australia Australia.
An excavation of an Early Iron Age village near Aalborg in Denmark uncovered the jaws and skull fragments from a small mammal that were morphologically identified to the genus (white-toothed shrews). Three species are known from prehistoric continental Europe but none of them are distributed in Scandinavia, which is why this surprising finding warranted further analyses. The bone was radiocarbon-dated to 2840-2750 calibrated years before present (cal.
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