There is little surviving evidence for plant use in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods yet the evidence there is, clearly indicates t... Reconstructing plant use before domestication is challenging due to a lack of evidence. How twisted fibres helped to shape the world, Where would we be without string? . Our project is field-based and comprises survey and excavation on north west coastlines including in areas that are now submerged or intertidal and reflect a time when the sea levels were lower than today. Dental calculus -Qesem Cave.pdf, Paleomedecine, Supplementary files Karen Hardy, Evolutionary Anthropology 2019, Erratum to “Plant use in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic, Erratum to “Plant use in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: Food, medicine and raw materials” [Quat. the human past. Ethnographic and prehistoric evidence for the use, manufacture and role of string in the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Northern Europe, Food for thought: starch in Mesolithic diet, Does enclosure make a difference? Departament dâArqueologia i Antropologia. SAIR 51: An Corran, Staffin, SkyeThe Saville et al. Chapman J., Gaydarska B., Hardy K. Does enclosure make a difference? 2003 Sillitoe P., K. Hardy Living Lithics. A view from the Balkans..A. Harding, S. Sievers and N. Venclova eds. Although previous studies have highlighted a stone tool-mediated shift from primarily plant-based to primarily meat-based diets as critical in the development of the brain and other human traits, we argue... Reconstructing detailed aspects of the lives of Lower Palaeolithic hominins, who lived during the Middle Hunter-gatherer plant use in south west Asia: the path to agriculture. This article reviews evidence of how starch granules associated with archaeological artefacts provide an insight into the use of plants by our ancestors for food, medicines and cultural activities. Dental calculus from a hominin molar was removed, degraded and analysed to recover entrapped remains. Residues and use-wear analysis. Scotland's seas are among the most biologically productive in the world, and their coastlines have attracted human habitation throughout the Holocene. examine sites relating to the earliest, Mesolithic, settlement of Providing a context: Ethnography, ethnohistory, ethnoarchaeology13. Hardy, K. Shell middens. Past. 2006 Hardy K. La litica tallada y la cultura material de los Wola, de Papua, Nueva Guinea. 2004 Wickham-Jones, C.R., K. Hardy Camas Daraich: A Mesolithic site at Point of Sleat, Skye. 31 (Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports) www.sair.org.uk. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) AcademiaNet member since 25.06.2013 ... Diadhiou, M. Faye, M. Carré. Karen is an ICREA Research Professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona and an Honorary Research Associate at the University of York. 4. CSIC. Lithic Implements and the Circulationof Raw Materials in the Great Hungarian Plain During the Late Neolithic Period, The Preceramic Sequence From the Tehuacan Valley: A Reevaluation, Pioneer populations in North West Scotland, Genetics and Molecular Pathology Division, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Section of Earth and Environmental Sciences, School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. Hunters and gatherers on the edge. and the interpretative work was done by an archaeologist, Hardy. Automated classification of starch granules using supervised pattern recognition of morphological properties. Usable plant components consist of leaves, bark, wood, fibres and In a recent study, Hardy The study of an archaeological seascape. Karen Hardy is a British professional ballroom dancer, coach, teacher and adjudicator.In 1998 she won the professional International Latin American Dance Championship with Bryan Watson. Together they form a unique fingerprint. It is particularly valuable in the earlier Paleolithic, where recovered data may represent the only evidence for plant use. Antiquity 76(3) 825-833. Evidence for Food, Cooking, and Medicinal Plants Entrapped in Dental Calculus, The Tie That Binds? Neanderthals, trees and dental calculus: new evidence from El Sidrón, Shellfishing and shell midden construction in the Saloum Delta, Senegal, Variable Use of Coastal Resources in Prehistoric and Historic Periods in Western Scotland, Scotland's First Settlers: the Mesolithic seascape of the Inner Sound, Skye and its contribution to the early prehistory of Scotland, The Importance of Dietary Carbohydrate in Human Evolution, Dental calculus reveals potential respiratory irritants and ingestion of essential plant-based nutrients at Lower Palaeolithic Qesem Cave Israel, Scotland’s intertidal prehistory: Lub Dubh Aird, a raw material and knapping site in Upper Loch Torridon, Dental Calculus Reveals Unique Insights into Food Items, Cooking and Plant Processing in Prehistoric Central Sudan, Anciens peuplements littoraux et relations Homme/Milieu sur les côtes de l'Europe atlantique Ancient Maritime Communities and the Relationship between People and Environment along the European Atlantic Coasts Sous la direction de / Edited by Avec la collaboration de / With the collaboration of, Starch granules and complex carbohydrates at Çatalhöyük, Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites: The use of soil micromorphology to better understand bone taphonomy in archaeological contexts, Shell Energy. In M Allen (ed.) 280. Until recently, Neanderthals were understood to have been predominantly meat-eaters; however, a growing body of evidence suggests their diet also included plants. Hardy K. Starch. Shell mounds, shell middens and coastal resources Geoffrey Bailey, Karen Hardy, Matthew Meredith-Williams XXI. Barcelona. teeth is from El Sidrón, Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus, Amas et sites coquilliers du delta du Saloum (Sénégal) : Passé et présent, Diet and environment 1.2 million years ago revealed through analysis of dental calculus from Europe’s oldest hominin at Sima del Elefante, Spain. vines, sticks, saps and resins, nut and large seed shells and a wide range of plant Barcelona Sept 2004. Anita Radini & … Wild Harvest: Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human Worlds. Supplementary data. Beyond food: The multiple pathways for inclusion of materials into ancient dental calculus: Radini et al. The aim is to recover evidence for the earliest human occupation of North West Scotland. The work described here represents some of the last direct evidence from users of stone tools. Mesolithic and later sites around the Inner Sound, Scotland the work of the Scotland's First Settlers project 1998-2004, Azokh caves excavations 2002-2006 : middle upper Palaeolithic transition in Nagorno-Karabagh, Prehistoric string theory. The shell middens of Scotland’s Inner Hebrides 123 Karen Hardy 12. Karen Hardy & Francesc Burjachs. 2007. Karen Hardy is an ICREA research professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. In Çatalhöyük 2007 Archive report. Shellfishing and shell middens in the Saloum Delta, Senegal. 2003 Hardy K., C.R. Ils créent de nombreuses îles bordées d’une mangrove dense qui font apparaître trois ensembles écologiques : un domaine maritime, un domaine insulai... Sima del Elefante, Atapuerca, Spain contains one of the earliest hominin fragments yet known in Europe, dating to 1.2 Ma. Here we describe the shotgun-sequencing of ancient DNA from five specimens of Neanderthal calcified dental plaque (calculus) and the characterization of reg... Les trois bras principaux du delta du Saloum : le Saloum au Nord (110 km), le Diombos (30 km) et le Bandiala au Sud (18 km) s’emboîtent par une infinité de petits canaux, appelés localement « bolons ». Landscape and Human Settlement in Insular Environments. 2002 ; pp. Material Perspectives: stone tool use and material culture among the Wola, PNG. Studying Scientific Archaeology Series, 2. Newly published! Amaia Arranz Juan Jose Ibanez and Lydia Zapata; Part 2. University students and faculty, institute members, and independent researchers, Technology or product developers, R&D specialists, and government or NGO employees in scientific roles, Health care professionals, including clinical researchers, Journalists, citizen scientists, or anyone interested in reading and discovering research. KAREN HARDY. This suggests that intertidal and marine archaeology is set to become increasingly importan... Accessing information on plant consumption before the adoption of agriculture is challenging. Due to our privacy policy, only current members can send messages to people on ResearchGate. Yet we know relatively little about how people used them and what role they played within the material cultures of which they formed a part. Antiquity:77, 297:555-566. Doctors, chefs or hominin animals? Hardy K. Food for thought. offered a broad behavioural context for the hypothesis that the ingestion of non-nutritional plants (yarrow and camomile) by Neanderthals was for the purpose of self-medication. Tubers, seeds and starch in hunter gatherer diet. The fieldwork was undertaken by Sillitoe as part of his ethnographic research in Papua New Guinea (PNG) Karen Hardy, Departament de Prehistòria, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Finding the earliest human occupations on Scotland's north-west coastline, Coastal Prehistory and Submerged Landscapes: Molluscan Resources, Shell-Middens and Underwater Investigations, Great Britain: The Intertidal and Underwater Archaeology of Britain’s Submerged Landscapes, S3 Variable gelatinisation of starch granules following open fire cooking.PPTX, Hardy et al 2015 Supplementary data. ... Department of Archaeology, King's Manor, University of York, York Y01 7EP, United Kingdom. 2007. Departament de Prehistòria, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Evidence for the use, manufacture and role of string in the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of northern Europe. the Inner Sound, along the coastlands between Skye and the Barcelona. How twisted fibres helped to shape the world (Hardy, 2008), has made an attempt to do this through the postulation of a prehistoric String Theory. Internet Archaeology:14. Great Britain has numerous peninsulas, smaller offshore islands and archipelagos, a long coastline relative to its land area (some 17,800 km of coastline relative to an area of 209,000 km 2) and is surrounded by extensive areas of now-submerged landscape (Bicket and Tizzard 2015; Westley 2017; Cohen et al. 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