Paleomedicine and the evolutionary context of medicinal plant use

K Hardy - Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia, 2021 - Springer
Modern human need for medicines is so extensive that it is thought to be a deep
evolutionary behavior. There is abundant evidence from our Paleolithic and later prehistoric …

Human tooth wear in the past and the present: tribological mechanisms, scoring systems, dental and skeletal compensations

E d'Incau, C Couture, B Maureille - Archives of oral biology, 2012 - Elsevier
This review of human tooth wear describes the fundamental mechanisms underlying this
process. Using the tribological approach they can be systematised and this in turn aids our …

Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent

F Broushaki, MG Thomas, V Link, S López, L Van Dorp… - Science, 2016 - science.org
We sequenced Early Neolithic genomes from the Zagros region of Iran (eastern Fertile
Crescent), where some of the earliest evidence for farming is found, and identify a previously …

Beyond food: The multiple pathways for inclusion of materials into ancient dental calculus

A Radini, E Nikita, S Buckley… - American journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Dental calculus (mineralized dental plaque) was first recognised as a potentially useful
archaeological deposit in the 1970s, though interest in human dental calculus as a resource …

Paleobiology and comparative morphology of a late Neandertal sample from El Sidrón, Asturias, Spain

A Rosas, C Martínez-Maza, M Bastir… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
Fossil evidence from the Iberian Peninsula is essential for understanding Neandertal
evolution and history. Since 2000, a new sample≈ 43,000 years old has been …

Error rates in dental microwear quantification using scanning electron microscopy

FE Grine, PS Ungar, MF Teaford - Scanning: The Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
There is a degree of correlation between dietary habits and dental microwear in extant
primates, and this has enabled inferences to be made about prehistoric diets. Several …

Dental calculus reveals potential respiratory irritants and ingestion of essential plant-based nutrients at Lower Palaeolithic Qesem Cave Israel

K Hardy, A Radini, S Buckley, R Sarig, L Copeland… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Reconstructing detailed aspects of the lives of Lower Palaeolithic hominins, who lived
during the Middle Pleistocene, is challenging due to the restricted nature of the surviving …

Diet and environment 1.2 million years ago revealed through analysis of dental calculus from Europe's oldest hominin at Sima del Elefante, Spain

K Hardy, A Radini, S Buckley, R Blasco… - The Science of …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Sima del Elefante, Atapuerca, Spain contains one of the earliest hominin fragments
yet known in Europe, dating to 1.2 Ma. Dental calculus from a hominin molar was removed …

Plant use in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: Food, medicine and raw materials

K Hardy - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
There is little surviving evidence for plant use in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods
yet the evidence there is, clearly indicates the importance of plants in the diet, as medicines …

Salivary amylase–The enzyme of unspecialized euryphagous animals

C Boehlke, O Zierau, C Hannig - Archives of oral biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction Alpha-amylase (EC 3.2. 1.1) is the most abundant enzyme in the saliva
of man and of several vertebrates. In humans, salivary amylase is mainly formed in the …