Latitudinal gradient in dairy production with the introduction of farming in Atlantic Europe

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 molecu...

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Autores: Lucquin, Alexander, Robson, Harry K., Colonese, Andrea Carlo, Arias, Pablo, Aubry, Bruno, Billard, Cyrille, Jan, Denis, Diniz, Mariana, Fernandes, Ricardo, Germain-Vallée, Cécile, Juhel, Laurent, Marcigny, Cyril, Mazet, Silvain, Marchand, Grégor, Neves, César, Ontañón-Peredo, Roberto, Simões, Teresa, Zilhão, João, Craig, Oliver E., Cubas, Miriam, Fábregas Valcarce, Ramón, Lombera Hermida, Arturo de, Rodríguez Álvarez, Xosé Pedro
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2020
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repositório:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/32124
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32124
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:5599 Otras Especialidades Historias (Arqueología)
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Resumo: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.

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