What Sumerian Teeth Reveal About the People History Ignored A new isotopic method unlocks diet and daily life at a third-millennium BCE Iraqi site where conventional analysis has long been impossible.

Cuneiform tablets say Sumerians ate fish. Their teeth say otherwise. New zinc isotope analysis of dental enamel from 4,500-year-old Abu Tbeirah reconstructs diet where collagen has long since vanished. #Bioarchaeology #AncientMesopotamia #IsotopeArchaeology www.anthropology.net/p/what-sumer...