13C Content of human collagen as a measure of prehistoric diet in woodland North America

Merwe, Nikolaas J. van der; Vogel, J. C.

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“…If a certain elemental signal systematically differs among breast milk, weaning foods, and the adult diet, BWPs can also be reconstructed. Research using stable isotopes (van der Merwe and Vogel, 1978;van der Merwe et al, 1981;Tauber, 1981;Chisholm et al, 1982;Ambrose and DeNiro, 1986) and trace elements (Sillen, 1981;Schoeninger, 1982;Sillen and Kavanagh, 1982;Brown, 1974) have been intensively applied to ancient and modern human populations since the 197021980s (reviewed by Katzenberg, 2008;Burton, 2008).…”

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Reconstruction of breastfeeding and weaning practices using stable isotope and trace element analyses: A review

Tsutaya

Yoneda

2014

American J Phys Anthropol

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Biogeochemical methods using stable isotopes and trace elements have been increasingly developed and applied to reconstruct modern and ancient breastfeeding and weaning practices of mammals, including humans, because they offer direct proxies for the dietary intake of subadults. Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotopes have been used to evaluate breast milk lipid, protein, and water intake, respectively. Carbon and sulfur isotopes have been used to estimate the content of weaning foods. The elemental concentrations of Sr and Ba in subadult tissues differ because of the dietary change during the weaning process. For analyses, various tissues have been used, such as hair, nail, blood, and feces for modern mammals and bone and teeth for ancient ones. Of these, trace element analysis of tooth enamel offers a good opportunity for the reconstruction of breastfeeding and weaning practices of the more distant past at finer resolution, although further understanding of the metabolism of trace elements is necessary. There are various tissue-and element-specific advantages and disadvantages, and a combination of different proxies can illuminate practices from various viewpoints. Finally, applying the geochemical reconstruction of breastfeeding and weaning practices to human ecology, primatology, and paleoanthropology is important; basic studies of the underlying physiological mechanisms and technical improvements in the analyses will further highlight avenues for future research. Yrbk Phys Anthropol 156:2-21, 2015. V C 2014 American Association of Physical AnthropologistsThe reconstruction of breastfeeding and weaning practices (BWPs) of ancient human and other mammalian species is one of the most important fields in anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, and history. Infant feeding practices affect the overall health of the population because diet, health status, and growth at a young age have profound effects on an individual's later life (Dettwyler and Fishman, 1992;Katzenberg et al., 1996;WHO, 1998WHO, , 2009Lewis, 2007). Breastfeeding and weaning practices can be viewed from the evolutionary perspectives of life history theory, parental investment, child development, social system, and reproductive strat-

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Reconstruction of breastfeeding and weaning practices using stable isotope and trace element analyses: A review

Tsutaya

Yoneda

2014

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…It helps as well to differentiate between the dietary input from C 3 plants or animals that consumed them ( 13 C depleted) and from C 4 resources ( 13 C enriched) (Van der Merwe and Vogel, 1978). However, since no edible C 4 plants are known in Europe during the Neanderthal era (Cerling, 1999;Sage et al, 1999), the main use of carbon isotopes is for estimating the consumption of marine proteins.…”

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Neanderthal diets in central and southeastern Mediterranean Iberia

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a b s t r a c tDuring recent decades, Neanderthal diet has been a major research topic in palaeoanthropology. This has been accelerated by the maturation of different techniques, which have produced a plethora of new information. However, this proliferation of data has led to confusing and contradictory results. Furthermore, most of the ecological dietary studies have been carried out on specimens drawn from different time periods and regions, almost exclusively those characterized by cold, open environmental conditions. Subsistence models based on these fragmentary data have been applied to Neanderthals living in a variety of different regions and environments, even though their dietary strategies may have been as variable as regions they inhabited. In this paper we integrate different dietary approaches (studies of the zooarchaeology, stable isotopes and plant remains) from the central and southeastern Mediterranean coast of Iberia in order to develop a broader and more complex picture of Neanderthal diet in different Mediterranean environmental conditions. Our results suggest that there may have been some minor dietary variation due to climatic or environmental differences, but that Neanderthal diet focussed on large terrestrial game, supplemented by plant foods when these were available.Ó 2013 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved. Neanderthal dietary ecologyThe dietary behaviours of Neanderthals and the relationship between their diet and their social organization, technological abilities, and even their eventual disappearance, have been hotly debated in the anthropological literature. Examining the diets of Neanderthals requires the synthesis of data that have been collected by numerous researchers over the last 150 years. In many cases, the differences between Neanderthal and early modern human diets have been emphasized, at the expense of cogent discussion of the variation within each group. Early modern humans lived in a wide variety of environmental contexts and likely pursued a variety of behaviours throughout this range of environments. The exclusively Eurasian distribution of Neanderthals did not include as many environments, but neither was it the exclusively cold Arctic climate that many have supposed it to be. A more detailed examination of the Neanderthal range and the effects of shifting global climates reveals that this group would have been exposed to a diverse range of environments (Hoffecker, 2009;MacDonald et al., 2009). Just as modern human dietary behaviour likely varied with environments, so, too, can we predict that Neanderthals had different diets in different environments.Our understanding of the diets of Neanderthals comes from three main lines of evidence. The first is the study of the human remains themselves, including the isotope signal recorded in their bones, the microwear on their teeth, and how factors of their lifehistory are related to diet. The second line of evidence includes the study of the remains of their food, in the form of animal and plant remains preserved ...

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“…Esta análise também oferece a possibilidade de saber quando o cultivo ou uso intensivo de plantas C 4 teve início (Vogel & Van der Merwe, 1977, Van der Merwe & Vogel, 1978Bender et al, 1981). As populações da costa sul-brasileira possuíam uma dieta baseada em recursos marinhos, principalmente peixe, definindo grupos de pescadores-coletores com valores isotó-picos de carbono e nitrogênio semelhantes a pescadores-coletores do Meso-lítico da Din ama rca (Tauber, 198 1;Sch oeninger, DeNiro & Tauber, 1983;DeNiro, 1987 ), e a cult uras pré-hist óric as dos Muwu na Califórnia meridional (De-Niro, 1987), a costa noroeste da América Norte (Chisholm, Nelson & Schwarcz, 1983), a cos ta da Nov a Ing lat err a (Bo urq ue & Krueg er, 1994), bem como a costa da Geórgia (Larsen et al, 1992).…”

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13C Content of human collagen as a measure of prehistoric diet in woodland North America

Cited by 567 publications

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Reconstruction of breastfeeding and weaning practices using stable isotope and trace element analyses: A review

Reconstruction of breastfeeding and weaning practices using stable isotope and trace element analyses: A review

Neanderthal diets in central and southeastern Mediterranean Iberia

Aplicações de isótopos estáveis de O, C e N em estudos de sazonalidade, mobilidade e dieta de populações pré-históricas no sul do Brasil

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