Both the environment and climate can be catalysts for human resilience and adaptation but can also have catastrophic effects on human health. In this project, we test the hypothesis that human diet and oral health track environmental and climatic variability. It focuses on proteomics and osteological data analysis of human skeletal assemblages curated at QUB and the UoA. Environmental and climatic volatility is of major interest today and its influence on population health, disease loads and the diet of medieval populations in Ireland and Scotland will be investigated. The aim is to integrate the proteomic analysis of calculus with data derived from chronology, human osteoarchaeology and palaeopathology and other aspects of environmental archaeology to enable an exploration of the relationship between humans and their environment across the medieval period in Ireland and Scotland.
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