*** Dataset of microfossil analysis of dental calculus samples from Jõelähtme Bronze Age burial site in Estonia ***

Author: Agnes Unt
Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu
Contact information: agnes.unt@ut.ee


***General introduction***

This dataset represents the results of dental calculus analysis from three individuals' teeth buried at Jõelähtme cemetery during the Bronze Age in Estonia. The dataset accompanies the article "Segregated food culture? Bronze Age (1250-500 cal BCE) dietary practices in Northern Estonia", submitted for publication in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. The authors of the article are Mari Tõrv (corresponding author), Shidong Chen, Agnes Unt, Kristiina Johanson, Eve Rannamäe, Liivi Varul, Sandra Sammler, Holar Sepp, Valter Lang, Andres Tvauri, Siim Salmar, John Meadows and Ester Oras.

***Purpose of the data collection***

The purpose of the data collection was to obtain information on the microfossils from the dental calculus samples that would indicate what the individuals might have eaten and come into contact with. The dataset was created in the frame of project PSG492 'Pots and bones, lipids and proteins: biomolecular archaeology for ancient dietary studies', supported by the Estonian Research Council.


***Description of the data in this dataset***

The dataset consists of two files:
'README.txt' - this file
'Dental_calculus_microremains_AU.pdf' - a file that contains a detailed report on the found microremains from the sampled individuals' teeth. It describes the remains' morphology, compares with possible identifications and explains the micoremains' possible origins. 
'Dental_calculus_microremains_AU.xlsx' - a file that contains the raw data of the results.