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Ancient Diets

Ancient Diets is a scholarly construct in food history that denotes the comprehensive patterns of food consumption and nutritional practices characteristic of human societies in antiquity, distinguished from other dietary studies by its exclusive focus on pre-medieval civilizations and their subsistence strategies, food procurement, preparation methods, and culturally determined eating behaviors.

491

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29.9K

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1.3K

Authors

516

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2017–2026

108

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Publications

491

Fermented beverages of pre- and proto-historic China

Patrick E. McGovern, Juzhong Zhang, Jigen Tang et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2004 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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The Tortoise and the Hare

Mary C. Stiner, Natalie D. Munro, Todd A. Surovell · Current Anthropology · 2000 · 573 citations

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Unraveling the processes shaping mammalian gut microbiomes over evolutionary time

Mathieu Groussin, Florent Mazel, Jon G. Sanders et al. · Nature Communications · 2017 · 543 citations · Full text

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Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium)

Amanda G. Henry, Alison S. Brooks, Dolores R. Piperno · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 507 citations · Full text

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Evolution of the human diet: the known, the unknown, and the unknowable

Choice Reviews Online · 2007 · 466 citations

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Authors

1.3K

  1. MP
    Michael P. Richards

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    12 publications · 1.5K citations

    12

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  2. RP
    Richard P. Evershed

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 648 citations

    8

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  3. SV
    Soultana-Maria Valamoti

    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

    6 publications · 283 citations

    6

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  4. OE
    Oliver E. Craig

    University of York, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 445 citations

    6

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  5. ME
    Mordechai E. Kislev

    Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    6 publications · 773 citations

    6

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Institutions

516

  1. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

    17 h-index

    26 publications

    2.2K citations

  2. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    14 h-index

    20 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    13 h-index

    26 publications

    2K citations

  4. Oxford Archaeology

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    12 h-index

    16 publications

    843 citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    11 h-index

    33 publications

    2.9K citations

  6. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

    Thessaloniki, Greece

    9 h-index

    16 publications

    798 citations

  7. Institute of Archaeology

    Beijing, China

    9 h-index

    24 publications

    14.4K citations

  8. University of Haifa

    Haifa, Israel

    9 h-index

    13 publications

    803 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Archaeological Science

    32 publications · 2.4K citations

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  2. Antiquity

    17 publications · 917 citations

    16

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  3. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 17 publications · 1.3K citations

    15

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  4. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports

    16 publications · 412 citations

    14

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  5. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

    15 publications · 389 citations

    14

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