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: Absorbed lipid residues Agriculture Cattle Exploitation Gas-chromatography Isotope analysis Near-east Organic residues Sheep Transition
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: Antropologia / arqueologia Astronomia / física Biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (all) Biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (miscellaneous) Biodiversidade Biotecnología Chemistry (all) Chemistry (miscellaneous) Ciência da computação Ciências agrárias i Ciências ambientais Ciências biológicas i Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas iii Educação física Engenharias iv Farmacia General biochemistry,genetics and molecular biology General chemistry General medicine General physics and astronomy Geociências Interdisciplinar Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Materiais Medicina i Medicina ii Medicina iii Medicina veterinaria Multidisciplinary Multidisciplinary sciences Nutrição Odontología Physics and astronomy (all) Physics and astronomy (miscellaneous) Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia Psicología Química Saúde coletiva Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros
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: 2024-02-04
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15907-4
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
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15907-4
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2020
Publication Type: Journal Publications