The evolution of dual meat and milk cattle husbandry in Linearbandkeramik societies
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F17%3A43895895" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/17:43895895 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14210/17:00095095
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5563807/pdf/rspb20170905.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5563807/pdf/rspb20170905.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0905" target="_blank" >10.1098/rspb.2017.0905</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The evolution of dual meat and milk cattle husbandry in Linearbandkeramik societies
Original language description
Cattle dominate archaeozoological assemblages from the north-central Europe between the sixth and fifth millennium BC and are frequently considered as exclusively used for their meat. Dairy products may have played a greater role than previously believed. Selective pressure on the lactase persistence mutation has been modelled to have begun between 6000 and 4000 years ago in central Europe. The discovery of milk lipids in late sixth millennium ceramic sieves in Poland may reflect an isolated regional peculiarity for cheese making or may signify more generalized milk exploitation in north-central Europe during the Early Neolithic. To investigate these issues, we analysed the mortality profiles based on age-at-death analysis of cattle tooth eruption, wear and replacement from 19 archaeological sites of the Linearbandkeramik (LBK) culture (sixth to fifth millennium BC). The results indicate that cattle husbandry was similar across time and space in the LBK culture with a degree of specialization for meat exploitation in some areas. Statistical comparison with reference age-at-death profiles indicate that mixed husbandry (milk and meat) was practised, with mature animals being kept. The analysis provides a unique insight into LBK cattle husbandry and how it evolved in later cultures in central and western Europe. It also opens a new perspective on how and why the Neolithic way of life developed through continental Europe and how dairy products became a part of the human diet.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GD404%2F09%2FH020" target="_blank" >GD404/09/H020: Moravian-Silesian School of Archaeological Doctorate Studies II</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences
ISSN
0962-8452
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Volume of the periodical
284
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1860
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
9
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UT code for WoS article
000407805000019
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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