What is our toolbox of analytical chemistry for exploring ancient hominin diets in the absence of organic preservation?
Abstract
This short review aims at drawing up an inventory of the existing chemical techniques that can help reconstruct past hominin diets in the absence of organic preservations (such as collagen). Preservation issues necessitate the preferential use of dental enamel over bones for bioapatite trace and minor element analyses. The trace element ratios in dental enamel-as opposed to bones-can distinguish browser, grazer and marine diets, but their use as...
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Title
What is our toolbox of analytical chemistry for exploring ancient hominin diets in the absence of organic preservation?
Published Date
Oct 1, 2018
Journal
Volume
197
Pages
307 - 318
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