caa a22 4500 445300965 CHVBK 20180317142557.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20100501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11430-010-0052-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11430-010-0052-9 Starch grains from dental calculus reveal ancient plant foodstuffs at Chenqimogou site, Gansu Province [Elektronische Daten] [MingQi Li, XiaoYan Yang, Hui Wang, Qiang Wang, Xin Jia, QuanSheng Ge] Chenqimogou site, located at the south bank of Tao River, is comprised of a large group of graves dated to ∼4000 a BP. For its large scale, unique mortuary system, and abundant of typical artifacts, the site was named one of "Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries of 2008 in China”. Many intact human skeletons have been excavated from the graves. Three teeth from two adult skeletons excavated from graves M187 and M194 were examined. Forty-eight starch grains were retrieved from dental calculus of three teeth. Six of those starch grains could not be identified because of damage. The others were classified into seven groups. Most of them were from wheat (Triticum aestivum) and/or barley (Hordeum vulgare). Remains possibly from foxtail millet (Setaria italica), buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum), gingkgo (Ginkgo biloba), acorn (Quercus spp.), bean, roots or tubers were identified. Ancient starch grains from dental calculus indicate that human foodstuffs primarily sourced from wheat, buckwheat, and foxtail millet. Acorn, beans, tubers or roots were supplements. A variety of starch grains retrieved from dental calculus revealed that diverse crops were cultivated in the Chenqimogou site 4000 years ago, and both dry-land farming and gathering were engaged. Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010 Chenqimogou site nationallicence Qijia Culture nationallicence starch grain analysis nationallicence dental calculus nationallicence ancient plant diet nationallicence Li MingQi Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China aut Yang XiaoYan Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China aut Wang Hui Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, 730000, Lanzhou, China aut Wang Qiang Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China aut Jia Xin Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems, MOE, Lanzhou University, 730000, Lanzhou, China aut Ge QuanSheng Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China aut Science China Earth Sciences SP Science China Press 53/5(2010-05-01), 694-699 1674-7313 53:5<694 2010 53 11430 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-010-0052-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-010-0052-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Li MingQi Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yang XiaoYan Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wang Hui Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, 730000, Lanzhou, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wang Qiang Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jia Xin Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems, MOE, Lanzhou University, 730000, Lanzhou, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ge QuanSheng Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science China Earth Sciences SP Science China Press 53/5(2010-05-01), 694-699 1674-7313 53:5<694 2010 53 11430 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer