Neanderthal medics? Evidence for food, cooking, and medicinal plants entrapped in dental calculus

@article{Hardy2012NeanderthalME,
  title={Neanderthal medics? Evidence for food, cooking, and medicinal plants entrapped in dental calculus},
  author={Karen Hardy and Stephen Buckley and Matthew James Collins and Almudena Estalrrich and Don R. Brothwell and Les Copeland and Antonio Garc{\'i}a-Tabernero and Samuel Garc{\'i}a-Vargas and Marco de la Rasilla and Carles Lalueza-Fox and Rosa Huguet and Markus Bastir and David Santamar{\'i}a and Marco Madella and Julie Wilson and {\'A}ngel Fern{\'a}ndez Cort{\'e}s and Antonio Rosas},
  journal={Naturwissenschaften},
  year={2012},
  volume={99},
  pages={617-626}
}
Neanderthals disappeared sometime between 30,000 and 24,000 years ago. [] Key Method We present the results of a study, in which sequential thermal desorption-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (TD-GC-MS) and pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC-MS) were combined with morphological analysis of plant microfossils, to identify material entrapped in dental calculus from five Neanderthal individuals from the north Spanish site of El Sidrón. Our results provide the first molecular evidence for…
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