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SUBMITTER: Madella M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4206403 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Madella Marco M García-Granero Juan José JJ Out Welmoed A WA Ryan Philippa P Usai Donatella D
PloS one 20141022 10
The study of plant exploitation and early use of cereals in Africa has seen over the years a great input from charred and desiccated macrobotanical remains. This paper presents the results of one of the few examples in Africa of microbotanical analyses. Three grave contexts of phytolith-rich deposits and the dental calculus of 20 individuals were analysed from two Neolithic cemeteries in North and Central Sudan. The radiocarbon-dated phytoliths from the burial samples show the presence of Near E ...[more]