Same island, different diet: Cultural evolution of food practice on Öland, Sweden, from the Mesolithic to the Roman Period

Eriksson, Gunilla; Linderholm, Anna; Fornander, Elin; Kanstrup, Marie; Schoultz, Pia; Olofsson, Hanna; Lidén, Kerstin

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2008.08.004

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“…One individual had the T2b haplogroup and differed from the TRB T2b that had a back mutation at np 16 296. The last of the new PWC individuals displayed a T-to-C transition at np 16 1 and figure 1). As the c-stretch between np 16 184-16 193 was removed in the previous study to avoid length heteroplasmy difficulties and pyrosequencing misreads, eight individuals could not be resolved between U4 and H1b.…”

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“…These hunting groups appear to have adopted pottery, although not farming and animal husbandry practices. Furthermore, some of the hunter-gatherers (such as the Pitted Ware communities, PWCs) coexisted with farming communities for up to a millennium [16], indeed, sufficiently long that the PWC partly overlaps with two distinct agricultural complexes, the Funnel Beaker Culture (Trichterbecherkultur, TRB), and the Battle Axe complex (BAC) a variant of the Corded Ware Culture [17].…”

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“…In line with the different hypotheses regarding the spread of agriculture, some Scandinavian archaeologists have favoured the notion of Mesolithic populations as active adopters of new cultural elements, and that the different contemporary farming and hunting groups were the same people expressing different material culture at different sites [15,17 -19]. However, the within Sweden geographically distinct TRB and PWC had different economies and different diets as indicated by stable isotope analyses [16,20]. Furthermore, recent genetic analyses have shed new light on the matter.…”

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Ancient mitochondrial DNA from the northern fringe of the Neolithic farming expansion in Europe sheds light on the dispersion process

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The European Neolithization process started around 12 000 years ago in the Near East. The introduction of agriculture spread north and west throughout Europe and a key question has been if this was brought about by migrating individuals, by an exchange of ideas or a by a mixture of these. The earliest farming evidence in Scandinavia is found within the Funnel Beaker Culture complex (Trichterbecherkultur, TRB) which represents the northernmost extension of Neolithic farmers in Europe. The TRB coexisted for almost a millennium with hunter-gatherers of the Pitted Ware Cultural complex (PWC). If migration was a substantial part of the Neolithization, even the northerly TRB community would display a closer genetic affinity to other farmer populations than to hunter-gatherer populations. We deep-sequenced the mitochondrial hypervariable region 1 from seven farmers (six TRB and one Battle Axe complex, BAC) and 13 hunter-gatherers (PWC) and authenticated the sequences using postmortem DNA damage patterns. A comparison with 124 previously published sequences from prehistoric Europe shows that the TRB individuals share a close affinity to Central European farmer populations, and that they are distinct from hunter-gatherer groups, including the geographically close and partially contemporary PWC that show a close affinity to the European Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.

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Ancient mitochondrial DNA from the northern fringe of the Neolithic farming expansion in Europe sheds light on the dispersion process

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“…Howcroft et al (2014) measured whole and root dentin for several deciduous and permanent teeth, respectively, from a huntergatherer skeletal population from the Middle Neolithic Pitted Ware Culture (after 2750 BC), Sweden. They compared the results with those from other Pitted Ware Culture sites in the Baltic region (e.g., Eriksson, 2004, Eriksson et al, 2008Eriksson and Lid en, 2013) and revealed that infant feeding practices differed slightly among sites.…”

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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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“…Carbon isotope measurements of human and animal bone collagen reflects the protein component of ingested foods, which can be used to infer potential sources of dietary carbon, alongside providing information regarding ecological niches, vegetation patterning and habitat (Schoeninger, DeNiro 1984;Lee-Thorp, Van der Merwe 1987). Stable carbon isotope ratios (δ 13 C) measured from bone collagen can allow us to distinguish between dietary protein from marine, terrestrial and freshwater resources (Schwarcz, Schoeninger 1991;Cerling et al 1997;Richards 2002;Eriksson et al 2008). In addition, δ 13 C values are influenced by the composition of the local vegetation.…”

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First isotope analysis and new radiocarbon dating of Trypillia (Tripolye) farmers from Verteba Cave, Bilche Zolote, Ukraine

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Same island, different diet: Cultural evolution of food practice on Öland, Sweden, from the Mesolithic to the Roman Period

Cited by 106 publications

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Ancient mitochondrial DNA from the northern fringe of the Neolithic farming expansion in Europe sheds light on the dispersion process

Ancient mitochondrial DNA from the northern fringe of the Neolithic farming expansion in Europe sheds light on the dispersion process

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

First isotope analysis and new radiocarbon dating of Trypillia (Tripolye) farmers from Verteba Cave, Bilche Zolote, Ukraine

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