Forensic anthropological report of Elba

Rech, Fernando Serrulla; Matias, M Sanin

doi:10.17979/cadlaxe.2017.39.0.3551

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“…Porotic hyperostosis was evaluated on a three-stage scale ( n = 80) and whether the lesions were healed or active ( n = 79) ( 22 ), and linear enamel hypoplasia was assessed as present or absent (i.e., whether one or more linear bands of decreased enamel thickness were visible; n = 81) ( 27 ). The differences in the number of individuals assessed for healed or active lesions are because of the exclusion of a previously published individual ( n = 1 Neolithic) ( 29 ) identified as having active lesions and n = 1 Mesolithic individual for whom the nature of the porotic hyperostosis lesions was unspecified ( 146 ).…”

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An integrative skeletal and paleogenomic analysis of stature variation suggests relatively reduced health for early European farmers

Marciniak

Bergey

Silva

et al. 2022

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Significance Subsistence shifts from hunting and gathering to agriculture over the last 12,000 y have impacted human culture, biology, and health. Although past human health cannot be assessed directly, adult stature variation and skeletal indicators of nonspecific stress can serve as proxies for health during growth and development. By integrating paleogenomic genotype and osteological stature data on a per-individual basis for 167 prehistoric Europeans, we observe relatively shorter than expected statures among early farmers after correcting for individual genetic contributions to stature. Poorer nutrition and/or increased disease burdens for early agriculturalists may partly underscore this result. Our integrated osteological–genetic model has exciting potential for studies of past human health and expansion into various other contexts.

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An integrative skeletal and paleogenomic analysis of stature variation suggests relatively reduced health for early European farmers

Marciniak

Bergey

Silva

et al. 2022

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Paleogenomic Evidence for Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin

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SummaryThe transition from hunting and gathering to farming involved profound cultural and technological changes. In Western and Central Europe, these changes occurred rapidly and synchronously after the arrival of early farmers of Anatolian origin [1, 2, 3], who largely replaced the local Mesolithic hunter-gatherers [1, 4, 5, 6]. Further east, in the Baltic region, the transition was gradual, with little or no genetic input from incoming farmers [7]. Here we use ancient DNA to investigate the relationship between hunter-gatherers and farmers in the Lower Danube basin, a geographically intermediate area that is characterized by a rapid Neolithic transition but also by the presence of archaeological evidence that points to cultural exchange, and thus possible admixture, between hunter-gatherers and farmers. We recovered four human paleogenomes (1.1× to 4.1× coverage) from Romania spanning a time transect between 8.8 thousand years ago (kya) and 5.4 kya and supplemented them with two Mesolithic genomes (1.7× and 5.3×) from Spain to provide further context on the genetic background of Mesolithic Europe. Our results show major Western hunter-gatherer (WHG) ancestry in a Romanian Eneolithic sample with a minor, but sizeable, contribution from Anatolian farmers, suggesting multiple admixture events between hunter-gatherers and farmers. Dietary stable-isotope analysis of this sample suggests a mixed terrestrial/aquatic diet. Our results provide support for complex interactions among hunter-gatherers and farmers in the Danube basin, demonstrating that in some regions, demic and cultural diffusion were not mutually exclusive, but merely the ends of a continuum for the process of Neolithization.

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Human remains in the Ardines karstic massif: Tito Bustillo and La Lloseta caves (Asturias, Spain)

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Garralda

Martínez-Villa³

et al. 2023

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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Forensic anthropological report of Elba

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An integrative skeletal and paleogenomic analysis of stature variation suggests relatively reduced health for early European farmers

An integrative skeletal and paleogenomic analysis of stature variation suggests relatively reduced health for early European farmers

Paleogenomic Evidence for Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin

Human remains in the Ardines karstic massif: Tito Bustillo and La Lloseta caves (Asturias, Spain)

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