Dental calculus reveals Mesolithic foragers in the Balkans consumed domesticated plant foods
Dental calculus reveals Mesolithic foragers in the Balkans consumed domesticated plant foods
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1603477113
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发表时间：
2016-09-13
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Boric, Dusan
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作者：
Cristiani, Emanuela;Radini, Anita;Boric, Dusan
研究人员一致认为，驯化植物是作为新石器时代“一揽子计划”的一部分从西南亚引入东南欧的，其中包括驯养动物和农业社区典型的手工艺品。人们普遍认为，该包裹大约在公元前 6200 年或更晚的时间到达巴尔干内陆地区。我们对巴尔干中部多瑙河峡谷弗拉萨克遗址中石器时代人类牙齿牙结石中的淀粉记录进行的分析提供了直接证据，表明已经有大约 6600 卡的淀粉含量。公元前，如果不是更早的话，该地区中石器时代晚期的采集者食用国内谷物，如Triticum monococum、Triticum dicocum 和 Hordeum distichon，这些也是东南欧新石器时代早期社区中发现的主要农作物。我们推断，“外来的”新石器时代驯化植物比之前认为的早近半个千年独立引入南欧，通过网络实现了内陆中石器时代采集者和土耳其爱琴海沿岸发现的早期农业群体之间的交流。
Researchers agree that domesticated plants were introduced into southeast Europe from southwest Asia as a part of a Neolithic "package," which included domesticated animals and artifacts typical of farming communities. It is commonly believed that this package reached inland areas of the Balkans by similar to 6200 calibrated (cal.) BC or later. Our analysis of the starch record entrapped in dental calculus of Mesolithic human teeth at the site of Vlasac in the Danube Gorges of the central Balkans provides direct evidence that already by similar to 6600 cal. BC, if not earlier, Late Mesolithic foragers of this region consumed domestic cereals, such as Triticum monococcum, Triticum dicoccum, and Hordeum distichon, which were also the main crops found among Early Neolithic communities of southeast Europe. We infer that "exotic" Neolithic domesticated plants were introduced to southern Europe independently almost half a millennium earlier than previously thought, through networks that enabled exchanges between inland Mesolithic foragers and early farming groups found along the Aegean coast of Turkey.