Inference of emergent cattle pastoralism in the southern Sahara desert based on localized hypoplasia of the primary canine

Stojanowski, Christopher M.; Carver, Charisse L.

doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2011.06.001

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“…Experimental studies report that nutritional insufficiency produces osteopenia in the alveolus and subsequent mastication induces trauma to the tooth that disrupts amelogenesis . Comparing prevalence of these lesions is common in bioarchaeological research and suggest that maternal stress and dietary quality are implicated in the production of CFEDs . When compared to LEH, CFED presence is associated with earlier mortality in samples of enslaved and free African Americans .…”

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“…117 Comparing prevalence of these lesions is common in bioarchaeological research and suggest that maternal stress and dietary quality are implicated in the production of CFEDs. 118,119 When compared to LEH, CFED presence is associated with earlier mortality in samples of enslaved and free African Americans. 120 Lukacs and colleagues 121 found relationships between CFED and growth stunting in some but not all samples of subadults from rural and urban India.…”

Section: Crypt Fenestration Enamel Defectsmentioning

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Bioarchaeological evidence for adaptive plasticity and constraint: Exploring life‐history trade‐offs in the human past

Temple

2018

Evolutionary Anthropology

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The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease paradigm evaluates the consequences of early life stress on health at later stages of life. Interacting with this paradigm represents a profound opportunity to leverage the lifespan and contextual approaches to human skeletal remains adopted by bioarchaeological research. Teeth and bone provide evidence for stressors experienced early in life. These events represent evidence for adaptive plasticity as Individuals survive the events through reallocation of energy to essential physiological functions, which inhibits enamel and skeletal growth. Age‐at‐death, adult body size, chronic infection, or childhood mortality may be used as covariates to better understand the physiological constraints operating on individual bodies following survival of early life stress. Contextual evidence from cemeteries provides clues to the ecological and cultural contingencies that exacerbate or mitigate the expression of these trade‐offs. Future studies should incorporate newly derived methods that provide reproducible and precise ways to evaluate early life stress, while incorporating populations that are often neglected.

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Section: Bioarchaeological Approachesmentioning

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Section: Crypt Fenestration Enamel Defectsmentioning

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Bioarchaeological evidence for adaptive plasticity and constraint: Exploring life‐history trade‐offs in the human past

Temple

2018

Evolutionary Anthropology

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“…Those individuals who died as juveniles may have remained comparatively sedentary with respect to their contemporaries due to issues with poor health and frailty. That juveniles during the Early Holocene suffered poor health is suggested by the high frequency of localized deciduous canine hypoplasias, which are dietary stress indicators that were significantly less frequent among Middle Holocene juveniles from Gobero (Stojanowski and Carver, ). Finally, another possibility is that increased mobility was reflective of enhanced survivorship; individuals that responded to climate and subsistence challenges with increasing mobility lived longer into adulthood.…”

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“…Still, Garcea () does consider the Middle Holocene inhabitants of Gobero to be pastoralists, despite the limited direct evidence for domesticated cattle at the site. The issue of whether these individuals were pastoralists remains controversial (see discussion in Sereno et al, ; Stojanowski and Carver, ). Excavated Early and Middle Holocene middens at Gobero show little change in the type of taxa utilized through time (see Sereno et al, ).…”

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Changing patterns of mobility as a response to climatic deterioration and aridification in the middle Holocene southern Sahara

Stojanowski

Knudson

2014

American J Phys Anthropol

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The African Humid Period witnessed a rapid human re-occupation of the Sahara as numerous lakes formed during the Holocene climatic optimum circa 10-5 kya. Permanent waters attracted a variety of aquatic and terrestrial fauna allowing for long-term occupation of specific paleolake basins. The Gobero paleolake in central Niger was one such location that preserves a unique mortuary record from the southern Sahara. Here, we use radiogenic strontium isotope analysis to investigate how human communities adapted to aridification throughout the Holocene. In particular, we examine the effects of increasing climate instability on patterns of human mobility. Results of radiogenic strontium isotope analysis of enamel and bone samples from Middle Holocene burials (∼7.2-4.9 kya) indicate predominantly local values with no evidence for sex-based variation. Comparisons of radiogenic strontium isotope data with previously published (Stojanowski and Knudson: Am J Phys Anthropol 146 (2011) 49-61) Early Holocene burials (∼9.7-8.3 kya) indicate significant differences in both enamel and bone values. Middle Holocene individuals demonstrate a predominantly non-local signature for enamel values and a predominantly local signature for bone values. Those individuals with non-local bone values always demonstrated non-local enamel values; however, the opposite was not the case. This suggests a divergence of mobility strategies during the Middle Holocene with a minority of individuals maintaining a more mobile existence throughout their life and others maintaining a similar strategy as Early Holocene hunter-gatherers that was tied to the paleolake basin. The more mobile individuals likely lived during the terminal phase of the lake's occupation. One response to aridification by Saharan peoples, then, was increasing mobility.

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“…When observed, bilateral expression of CFEDs is asymmetric in size and severity (Lukacs, ). CFEDs are most often found on larger teeth (Skinner & Newell, ) and less frequently on the deciduous central and lateral incisors and deciduous first molars (Blakey & Armelagos, ; Halcrow & Tayles, ; Lukacs & Walimbe, ; Lukacs, Walimbe, & Floyd, ; Stojanowski & Carver, ).…”

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Crypt fenestration enamel defects and early life stress: Contextual explorations of growth and mortality in Colonial Peru

Thomas

Temple

Klaus

2019

American J Phys Anthropol

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Objectives: This study provides a comprehensive analysis of crypt fenestration enamel defects (CFEDs) from the Eten and Mórrope communities, Colonial period (A.D. 1,530-1,750), Lambayeque Valley, Peru. The goal is to help clarify the role of these lesions as reflections of early life environments as well as relationships growth and survival at future ages.Materials and methods: CFED absence/presence was recorded in the mandibular canines of 105 individuals and 202 teeth. Defect prevalence was compared between the Eten and Mórrope sites using a proportions test. Femoral growth residuals were compared between CFED present and absent samples. Mortality risk was evaluated using Kaplan-Meier survival analysis.

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Inference of emergent cattle pastoralism in the southern Sahara desert based on localized hypoplasia of the primary canine

Cited by 12 publications

References 52 publications

Bioarchaeological evidence for adaptive plasticity and constraint: Exploring life‐history trade‐offs in the human past

Bioarchaeological evidence for adaptive plasticity and constraint: Exploring life‐history trade‐offs in the human past

Changing patterns of mobility as a response to climatic deterioration and aridification in the middle Holocene southern Sahara

Crypt fenestration enamel defects and early life stress: Contextual explorations of growth and mortality in Colonial Peru

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