An extensive archaeological dental calculus dataset spanning 5000 years for ancient human oral microbiome research
Francesca J. Standeven, Gwyn Dahlquist-Axe, Jessica Hendy, Sarah Fiddyment, Malin Holst, Krista Michelle McGrath, Matthew J. Collins, Amy Z. Mundorff, Anita Radini, Josef Wagner, Conor Joseph Meehan, Andrew Tedder, Camilla Speller
The paper provides a 5000-year-old dental calculus metagenomic dataset from 174 UK archaeological samples to study ancient human oral microbiomes and related topics like diet and antimicrobial resistance.
Data in Brief · Jun 12, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology