CENIEH participates in a study published in The Science of Nature which reveals the plant-based diet of Europe’s oldest hominin based on the analysis of dental calculus obtained at AtapuercaWed, 11/01/2017
The analysis of dental calculus obtained from the teeth of the mandible of an individual found at the Sima del Elefante site in Atapuerca (Burgos), dating back more than 1.2 million years, featured in a study on plant-based diet recently published in The Science of Nature journal, in which researchers from the National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH) Ruth Blasco and José Maria Bermúdez de Castro were involved.