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Standeven, FJ, Dahlquist-Axe, G, Hendy, J, Fiddyment, S, Holst, M, McGrath, K, Collins, M, Mundorff, A, Radini, A, Wagner, J, Meehan, CJ 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0724-8343, Tedder, A and Speller, CF,
2025.
An extensive archaeological dental calculus dataset spanning 5000 years for ancient human oral microbiome research.
Data in Brief, 61: 111770.
ISSN 2352-3409
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Abstract
Archaeological dental calculus can provide detailed insights into the ancient human oral microbiome. We offer a multi-period, multi-site, ancient shotgun metagenomic dataset consisting of 174 samples obtained primarily from archaeological dental calculus derived from various skeletal collections in the United Kingdom. This article describes all the materials used including the skeletons’ historical period and burial location, biological sex, and age determination, data accessibility, and additional details associated with environmental and laboratory controls. In addition, this article describes the laboratory and bioinformatic methods associated with the dataset development and discusses the technical validity of the data following quality assessments, damage evaluations, and decontamination procedures. Our approach to collecting, making accessible, and evaluating bioarchaeological metadata in advance of metagenomic analysis aims to further enable the exploration of archaeological science topics such as diet, disease, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
| Item Type: | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Publication Title: | Data in Brief |
| Creators: | Standeven, F.J., Dahlquist-Axe, G., Hendy, J., Fiddyment, S., Holst, M., McGrath, K., Collins, M., Mundorff, A., Radini, A., Wagner, J., Meehan, C.J., Tedder, A. and Speller, C.F. |
| Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
| Date: | August 2025 |
| Volume: | 61 |
| ISSN: | 2352-3409 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1016/j.dib.2025.111770 DOI 2487866 Other |
| Rights: | © 2025 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology |
| Record created by: | Jeremy Silvester |
| Date Added: | 21 Aug 2025 07:59 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Aug 2025 07:59 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/54237 |
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