Santander (EFE).- A Cantabrian research project is studying dental wear to reconstruct the climate of the past and human adaptations.
The Ministry of Science and Innovation will finance the project “New windows to the past: paleoproteomics, metagenomics, geochemistry and study of 3D dental wear to reconstruct the climate of the past and human adaptations” with 72,600 euros.
This funding is part of the State Program to Promote Scientific-Technical Research and its Transfer.
This project is led by the Department of Historical Sciences of the University of Cantabria (UC), with the collaboration of the Center for Agricultural Research and Training (CIFA), attached to the Cantabrian Executive, as reported by the Government of Cantabria in a press release .
It is directed by EvoAdapta, a UC R+D+i group, led by the researcher Ana Belén Marín, who studies prehistory from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Its studies focus on animal and human populations of the past and for this it has a laboratory prepared to carry out various protocols for the analysis of organic and inorganic materials and a microscopy area.
Dr. Marín’s group has a large number of publications in high-profile journals specialized in prehistory and archaeology, actively participates in science dissemination activities, and collaborates with different museums and national and international institutions.
For the development of its line of research, the EvoAdapta group studies the remains of animals found in archaeological sites but also needs information on livestock, livestock systems and pastures today in Cantabria and it is on this aspect that it focuses collaboration with CIFA.