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SUBMITTER: Gismondi A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6986732 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gismondi Angelo A Baldoni Marica M Gnes Micaela M Scorrano Gabriele G D'Agostino Alessia A Di Marco Gabriele G Calabria Giulietta G Petrucci Michela M Müldner Gundula G Von Tersch Matthew M Nardi Alessandra A Enei Flavio F Canini Antonella A Rickards Olga O Alexander Michelle M Martínez-Labarga Cristina C
PloS one 20200128 1
A multidisciplinary approach, combining stable isotope analysis from bone proteins and investigations on dental calculus using DNA analysis, light microscopy, and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry, was applied to reconstruct dietary and medicinal habits of the individuals recovered in the cemetery of the Castle of Santa Severa (7th-15th centuries CE; Rome, Italy). Stable isotope analysis was performed on 120 humans, 41 faunal specimens and 8 charred seeds. Dental calculus analyse ...[more]