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ArticlePloS one2018

5000 years of dietary variations of prehistoric farmers in the Great Hungarian Plain.

Beatriz Gamarra, Rachel Howcroft, Ashley McCall, János Dani, Zsigmond Hajdú, Emese Gyöngyvér Nagy, László D Szabó, László Domboróczki, Ildikó Pap, Pál Raczky and 5 more

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Article in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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Beatriz GamarraSchool of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0003-3764-497X
Rachel HowcroftSchool of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Ashley McCallSchool of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-7968-5564
János DaniDéri Museum, Debrecen, Hungary.
Zsigmond HajdúDéri Museum, Debrecen, Hungary.
Emese Gyöngyvér NagyDéri Museum, Debrecen, Hungary.
László D SzabóDéri Museum, Debrecen, Hungary.
László DomboróczkiIstván Dobó Castle Museum, Eger, Hungary.
Ildikó PapDepartment of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0001-6601-1616
Pál RaczkyInsitute of Archaeological Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Antónia MarcsikUniversity of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
Zsuzsanna K ZoffmannHungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary.
Tamás HajduDepartment of Biological Anthropology, Institute of Biology, EötvösLoránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Robin N M FeeneySchool of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0003-4608-3852
Ron PinhasiSchool of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of farming was a catalyst for the evolution of the human diet from the varied subsistence practices of hunter-gatherers to the more globalised food economy we depend upon today. Although there has been considerable research into the dietary changes associated with the initial spread of farming, less attention has been given to how dietary choices continued to develop during subsequent millennia. A paleogenomic time transect for 5 millennia of human occupation in the Great Hungarian Plain spanning from the advent of the Neolithic to the Iron Age, showed major genomic turnovers. Here we assess where these genetic turnovers are associated with corresponding dietary shifts, by examining the carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios of 52 individuals. Results provide evidence that early Neolithic individuals, which were genetically characterised as Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, relied on wild resources to a greater extent than those whose genomic attributes were of typical Neolithic European farmers. Other Neolithic individuals and those from the Copper Age to Bronze Age periods relied mostly on terrestrial C3 plant resources. We also report a carbon isotopic ratio typical of C4 plants, which may indicate millet consumption in the Late Bronze Age, despite suggestions of the crop's earlier arrival in Europe during the Neolithic.

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Anthropology, CulturalDietAgricultureFemaleHistory, AncientHumansHungaryMale

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PMID29746569
PMCPMC5944993

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