Dental calculus is the richest known source of ancient DNA in the archaeological record. That stubborn mineralized plaque, once treated as little more than an unpleasant byproduct of life, has become ...

Chemical analysis of 2,000-year-old human teeth from northern Vietnam has confirmed that ancient inhabitants deliberately ...

Fragments of BRT-VP-2/135 before assembly. The specimen was found in 29 pieces of which 27 of them were recovered by sifting and picking the sifted dirt. With the help of newly identified bones, an ...

A: Location of Pontecagnano (modified from NASA Visible Earth project ‒ credits to Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC). B: Dental sample. C: Histological images of two sampled ...