Author, as appears in the article.: Cubas, Miriam; Lucquin, Alexandre; Robson, Harry K.; Colonese, Andre Carlo; Arias, Pablo; Aubry, Bruno; Billard, Cyrille; Jan, Denis; Diniz, Mariana; Fernandes, Ricardo; Valcarce, Ramon Fabregas; Germain-Vallee, Cecile; Juhel, Laurent; de Lombera-Hermida, Arturo; Marcigny, Cyril; Mazet, Sylvain; Marchand, Gregor; Neves, Cesar; Ontanon-Peredo, Roberto; Pedro Rodriguez-Alvarez, Xose; Simoes, Teresa; Zilhao, Joao; Craig, Oliver E.;

Department: Història i Història de l'Art

URV's Author/s: Rodríguez Álvarez, José Pedro

Keywords: Transition Sheep Organic residues Near-east Isotope analysis Gas-chromatography Exploitation Cattle Agriculture Absorbed lipid residues

Abstract: The introduction of farming had far-reaching impacts on health, social structure and demography. Although the spread of domesticated plants and animals has been extensively tracked, it is unclear how these nascent economies developed within different environmental and cultural settings. Using molecular and isotopic analysis of lipids from pottery, here we investigate the foods prepared by the earliest farming communities of the European Atlantic seaboard. Surprisingly, we find an absence of aquatic foods, including in ceramics from coastal sites, except in the Western Baltic where this tradition continued from indigenous ceramic using hunter-gatherer-fishers. The frequency of dairy products in pottery increased as farming was progressively introduced along a northerly latitudinal gradient. This finding implies that early farming communities needed time to adapt their economic practices before expanding into more northerly areas. Latitudinal differences in the scale of dairy production might also have influenced the evolution of adult lactase persistence across Europe. The transition to agriculture brought major changes to human populations in Europe during the Neolithic period. Here, Cubas and colleagues analyse lipid residues from Neolithic pottery from along the Atlantic coast of Europe to trace the spread of dairy production and shifts in diet.

Thematic Areas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Saúde coletiva Química Psicología Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia Physics and astronomy (miscellaneous) Physics and astronomy (all) Odontología Nutrição Multidisciplinary sciences Multidisciplinary Medicina veterinaria Medicina iii Medicina ii Medicina i Materiais Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Interdisciplinar Geociências General physics and astronomy General medicine General chemistry General biochemistry,genetics and molecular biology Farmacia Engenharias iv Educação física Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência da computação Chemistry (miscellaneous) Chemistry (all) Biotecnología Biodiversidade Biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (miscellaneous) Biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (all) Astronomia / física Antropologia / arqueologia

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Author's mail: josepedro.rodriguez@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-1852-2283

Record's date: 2023-02-19

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15907-4

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Nature Communications. 11 (1):

APA: Cubas, Miriam; Lucquin, Alexandre; Robson, Harry K.; Colonese, Andre Carlo; Arias, Pablo; Aubry, Bruno; Billard, Cyrille; Jan, Denis; Diniz, Mariana; (2020). Latitudinal gradient in dairy production with the introduction of farming in Atlantic Europe. Nature Communications, 11(1), -. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15907-4

Article's DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15907-4

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2020

Publication Type: Journal Publications