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ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
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Summary: By analyzing microremains and proteins preserved in dental calculus from individuals in the Southern Levant during the second millennium BCE, it has been found that people in the Eastern Mediterranean had access to food from distant locations such as South Asia, including soybean, banana, and turmeric, pushing back the earliest evidence of these foods in the Mediterranean by centuries or even millennia. This challenges previous perceptions of the complexity and intensity of Indo-Mediterranean trade during the Bronze Age and the degree of globalization in early Eastern Mediterranean cuisine.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
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A. V. Vybornov, S. G. Skobelev, E. A. Alekseeva, A. N. Bagashev, S. M. Slepchenko, I. A. Grachev
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Sergey M. Slepchenko, Alexei N. Voroshilov, Olga M. Voroshilova, Maria O. Filimonova, Natalia G. Svirkina
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VOLGOGRADSKII GOSUDARSTVENNYI UNIVERSITET-VESTNIK-SERIYA 4-ISTORIYA REGIONOVEDENIE MEZHDUNARODNYE OTNOSHENIYA
(2022)
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I. D. Zolnikov, A. A. Anoikin, E. A. Filatov, A. V. Vybornov, A. V. Vasiliev, A. Postnov, L. Zotkina
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Sergey Mikhailovich Slepchenko, Tatiana Vladimirovna Lobanova, Georgy Petrovich Vizgalov, Sergey Nikolaevich Ivanov, Daria Sergeyevna Rakultseva
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