The evolution of dual meat and milk cattle husbandry in Linearbandkeramik societies

Kód výsledku v 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>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216224:14210/17:00095095

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The evolution of dual meat and milk cattle husbandry in Linearbandkeramik societies

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The evolution of dual meat and milk cattle husbandry in Linearbandkeramik societies

Popis výsledku anglicky

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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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60102 - Archaeology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GD404%2F09%2FH020" target="_blank" >GD404/09/H020: Moravskoslezská škola archeologických doktorských studií II</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences

ISSN

0962-8452

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

284

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1860

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

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Kód UT WoS článku

000407805000019

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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