The Change in Pre-Historic Eating Habits

Before the Copper Age, and again before the first farmers arrived in Italy 33,000 years ago, archaeologists discovered two significant changes in the oral bacteria...

The microbiome of the human mouth has a significant impact on our health. Little is known about how our varied oral microbiomes and way of life have co-evolved. Even before the advent of agriculture, it is reasonable to assume that our eating patterns have altered and thus have the bacteria in our mouths.

Through analyzing ancient oral bacteria, a new s…