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Neolithic dental calculi provide evidence for environmental proxies and consumption of wild edible fruits and herbs in central Apennines
Looking for a biological fingerprint relative to new aspects of the relationship between humans and natural environment during prehistoric times is challenging. Although many issues still need to be addressed in terms of authentication and identification, microparticles hidden in ancient dental calc...
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author | D’Agostino, Alessia Di Marco, Gabriele Marvelli, Silvia Marchesini, Marco Rizzoli, Elisabetta Rolfo, Mario Federico Canini, Antonella Gismondi, Angelo |
author_facet | D’Agostino, Alessia Di Marco, Gabriele Marvelli, Silvia Marchesini, Marco Rizzoli, Elisabetta Rolfo, Mario Federico Canini, Antonella Gismondi, Angelo |
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description | Looking for a biological fingerprint relative to new aspects of the relationship between humans and natural environment during prehistoric times is challenging. Although many issues still need to be addressed in terms of authentication and identification, microparticles hidden in ancient dental calculus can provide interesting information for bridging this gap of knowledge. Here, we show evidence about the role of edible plants for the early Neolithic individuals in the central Apennines of the Italian peninsula and relative cultural landscape. Dental calculi from human and animal specimens exhumed at Grotta Mora Cavorso (Lazio), one of the largest prehistoric burial deposits, have returned an archaeobotanical record made up of several types of palaeoecological proxies. The organic fraction of this matrix was investigated by a multidisciplinary approach, whose novelty consisted in the application of next generation sequencing to ancient plant DNA fragments, specifically codifying for maturase K barcode gene. Panicoideae and Triticeae starches, together with genetic indicators of Rosaceae fruits, figs, and Lamiaceae herbs, suggested subsistence practices most likely still based on wild plant resources. On the other hand, pollen, and non-pollen palynomorphs allowed us to outline a general vegetational framework dominated by woodland patches alternated with meadows, where semi-permanent settlements could have been established. |
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spelling | pubmed-97634112022-12-21 Neolithic dental calculi provide evidence for environmental proxies and consumption of wild edible fruits and herbs in central Apennines D’Agostino, Alessia Di Marco, Gabriele Marvelli, Silvia Marchesini, Marco Rizzoli, Elisabetta Rolfo, Mario Federico Canini, Antonella Gismondi, Angelo Commun Biol Article Looking for a biological fingerprint relative to new aspects of the relationship between humans and natural environment during prehistoric times is challenging. Although many issues still need to be addressed in terms of authentication and identification, microparticles hidden in ancient dental calculus can provide interesting information for bridging this gap of knowledge. Here, we show evidence about the role of edible plants for the early Neolithic individuals in the central Apennines of the Italian peninsula and relative cultural landscape. Dental calculi from human and animal specimens exhumed at Grotta Mora Cavorso (Lazio), one of the largest prehistoric burial deposits, have returned an archaeobotanical record made up of several types of palaeoecological proxies. The organic fraction of this matrix was investigated by a multidisciplinary approach, whose novelty consisted in the application of next generation sequencing to ancient plant DNA fragments, specifically codifying for maturase K barcode gene. Panicoideae and Triticeae starches, together with genetic indicators of Rosaceae fruits, figs, and Lamiaceae herbs, suggested subsistence practices most likely still based on wild plant resources. On the other hand, pollen, and non-pollen palynomorphs allowed us to outline a general vegetational framework dominated by woodland patches alternated with meadows, where semi-permanent settlements could have been established. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9763411/ /pubmed/36536113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04354-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article D’Agostino, Alessia Di Marco, Gabriele Marvelli, Silvia Marchesini, Marco Rizzoli, Elisabetta Rolfo, Mario Federico Canini, Antonella Gismondi, Angelo Neolithic dental calculi provide evidence for environmental proxies and consumption of wild edible fruits and herbs in central Apennines |
title | Neolithic dental calculi provide evidence for environmental proxies and consumption of wild edible fruits and herbs in central Apennines |
title_full | Neolithic dental calculi provide evidence for environmental proxies and consumption of wild edible fruits and herbs in central Apennines |
title_fullStr | Neolithic dental calculi provide evidence for environmental proxies and consumption of wild edible fruits and herbs in central Apennines |
title_full_unstemmed | Neolithic dental calculi provide evidence for environmental proxies and consumption of wild edible fruits and herbs in central Apennines |
title_short | Neolithic dental calculi provide evidence for environmental proxies and consumption of wild edible fruits and herbs in central Apennines |
title_sort | neolithic dental calculi provide evidence for environmental proxies and consumption of wild edible fruits and herbs in central apennines |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9763411/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36536113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04354-0 |
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