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The non-adult burials of cabeço da amoreira, muge (Portugal): recent discoverie...

Cabeço da Amoreira, a key Mesolithic shell mound in the Muge region (central Portugal) provides critical insights into the funerary and socio-cultural practices of Western Europe’s last hunter-gatherer-fisher populations. Recent systematic excavations have provided new data into biological diversity and funerary practices, particularly in relation to non-adult individuals. This study focuses on three non-adult ...

Underneath the surface: examining “hidden lesions” with paleoimaging at Moita d...

Discovered 160 years ago, the Muge archaeological sites in Portugal yield the most significant documentation of human skeletons from the Mesolithic period in Western Europe (8200-7100 cal B.P.). However, sediment weight has caused significant postmortem alterations that have limited previous studies. Paleoimaging techniques were applied to overcome these limitations and provide previously inaccessible informati...

Identification of Neolithic diet by the morphology of the starch grains of dent...

The starch grains present in the dental calculus of four Neolithic individuals of the Dehesilla Cave (Cadiz, South of Spain) were extracted and observed with light microscopy. The variant of the extraction technique used proved to be very effective. A number of Poaceae-Triticeae taxa [wheat (Triticum sp., the main crop, including Triticum aestivum), barley (Hordeum sp.)], Fabaceae-Fabeae-Cicereae and Fagaceae (...

Morphological study of the bony labyrinth of the last hunter‐gatherers in Portu...

The bony labyrinth is often studied in paleoanthropology for the taxonomic identification of hominins with a special focus on the differentiation between Neanderthals and modern humans. Although the variability of Pleistocene populations is now well studied, the variability of Early and Middle Holocene modern human hunter-gatherers is still poorly known. Thus, this study focuses on the analysis of the bony laby...

Underneath the Surface: Examining “Hidden Lesions” With Paleoimaging at Moita d...

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) via a CEEC contract (contract reference 2020.00499.CEECIND; https://doi.org/10.54499/2020.00499.CEECIND/CP1613/CT0002) and a R&D project (project “ParaFunction—Are Neanderthals adapted to heavy masticatory and paramasticatory function?”, reference 2022.07737.PTDC; https:// doi. org/ 10. 54499/2022. 07737. PTDC)

Morphological study of the bony labyrinth of the last hunter‐gatherers in Portu...

Changes in dental wear magnitude in the last ∼8000 years in southwestern Iberia

Objective: This study examines changes in dental wear magnitude in the past ~8000 years, i.e., since Mesolithic until the 19th century, in southwestern Iberia. Thus, it encompasses the transition from hunting-gathering to agro-pastoralism, and then to the industrialization of food production and pre-processing. Design: Dental wear magnitude was scored in a total of 191 individuals and 1557 teeth from Mesolithic...

Mandibular morphology and the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Westernmost Ib...

Neolithic farming and animal husbandry were first developed in the Near East ~ 10,000 BCE and expanded westwards, reaching westernmost Iberia no later than 5500 BCE. It resulted in major social, cultural, economic and dietary changes. Yet, the impact of this change on human mandibular morphology in Iberia is yet to be assessed, which is regrettable because mandible form is impacted by population history and die...

Mandibular morphology and the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Westernmost Ib...

Neolithic farming and animal husbandry were first developed in the Near East similar to 10,000 BCE and expanded westwards, reaching westernmost Iberia no later than 5500 BCE. It resulted in major social, cultural, economic and dietary changes. Yet, the impact of this change on human mandibular morphology in Iberia is yet to be assessed, which is regrettable because mandible form is impacted by population histor...

Changes in dental wear magnitude in the last ∼8000 years in southwestern Iberia

Objective: This study examines changes in dental wear magnitude in the past -8000 years, i.e., since Mesolithic until the 19th century, in southwestern Iberia. Thus, it encompasses the transition from hunting-gathering to agro-pastoralism, and then to the industrialization of food production and pre-processing. Design: Dental wear magnitude was scored in a total of 191 individuals and 1557 teeth from Mesolithic...