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      Latitudinal gradient in dairy production with the introduction of farming in Atlantic Europe

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          The introduction of farming had far-reaching impacts on health, social structure and demography. Although the spread of domesticated plants and animals has been extensively tracked, it is unclear how these nascent economies developed within different environmental and cultural settings. Using molecular and isotopic analysis of lipids from pottery, here we investigate the foods prepared by the earliest farming communities of the European Atlantic seaboard. Surprisingly, we find an absence of aquatic foods, including in ceramics from coastal sites, except in the Western Baltic where this tradition continued from indigenous ceramic using hunter-gatherer-fishers. The frequency of dairy products in pottery increased as farming was progressively introduced along a northerly latitudinal gradient. This finding implies that early farming communities needed time to adapt their economic practices before expanding into more northerly areas. Latitudinal differences in the scale of dairy production might also have influenced the evolution of adult lactase persistence across Europe.

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          The transition to agriculture brought major changes to human populations in Europe during the Neolithic period. Here, Cubas and colleagues analyse lipid residues from Neolithic pottery from along the Atlantic coast of Europe to trace the spread of dairy production and shifts in diet.

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            Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding.

            The domestication of cattle, sheep and goats had already taken place in the Near East by the eighth millennium bc. Although there would have been considerable economic and nutritional gains from using these animals for their milk and other products from living animals-that is, traction and wool-the first clear evidence for these appears much later, from the late fifth and fourth millennia bc. Hence, the timing and region in which milking was first practised remain unknown. Organic residues preserved in archaeological pottery have provided direct evidence for the use of milk in the fourth millennium in Britain, and in the sixth millennium in eastern Europe, based on the delta(13)C values of the major fatty acids of milk fat. Here we apply this approach to more than 2,200 pottery vessels from sites in the Near East and southeastern Europe dating from the fifth to the seventh millennia bc. We show that milk was in use by the seventh millennium; this is the earliest direct evidence to date. Milking was particularly important in northwestern Anatolia, pointing to regional differences linked with conditions more favourable to cattle compared to other regions, where sheep and goats were relatively common and milk use less important. The latter is supported by correlations between the fat type and animal bone evidence.
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              Stable Isotope Evidence for Similarities in the Types of Marine Foods Used by Late Mesolithic Humans at Sites Along the Atlantic Coast of Europe

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                miriam.cubas@york.ac.uk
                Journal
                Nat Commun
                Nat Commun
                Nature Communications
                Nature Publishing Group UK (London )
                2041-1723
                27 April 2020
                27 April 2020
                2020
                : 11
                : 2036
                Affiliations
                [1 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1936 9668, GRID grid.5685.e, BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, , University of York, ; Wentworth Way, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD UK
                [2 ]ISNI 0000 0001 2164 6351, GRID grid.10863.3c, Departamento de Historia, , Universidad de Oviedo, ; C/Amparo Pedregal s/n, E-33011 Oviedo, Spain
                [3 ]Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi, Zorroagagaina 11, E-20014 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
                [4 ]GRID grid.7080.f, Department of Prehistory, Edifici B Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, , Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ; Carrer de la Fortuna, Bellaterra, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
                [5 ]GRID grid.7080.f, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Edifici Z, , Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ; Carrer de les columns, Bellaterra, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
                [6 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1770 272X, GRID grid.7821.c, Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria, , Universidad de Cantabria-Gobierno de Cantabria, ; Avd de los Castros s/n, E-39005 Santander, Spain
                [7 ]INRAP Centre Archéologique du Grand Quevilly, 30 boulevard de Verdun, 76120 Le Grand Quevilly, France
                [8 ]DRAC du Département Normandie Service Régional de l’Archéologie, 13 bis, rue Saint-Ouen, 14052 CAEN cedex 4, France
                [9 ]Service Archéologie du Conseil Départemental du Calvados, 36 rue Fred Scamaroni, 14000 Caen, France
                [10 ]ISNI 0000 0001 2181 4263, GRID grid.9983.b, Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa -UNIARQ- Alameda da Universidade, ; 1600-214 Lisbon, Portugal
                [11 ]ISNI 0000 0004 4914 1197, GRID grid.469873.7, Department of Archaeology, , Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, ; 07745 Jena, Germany
                [12 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1936 8948, GRID grid.4991.5, School of Archaeology, , University of Oxford, ; 1 South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3TG UK
                [13 ]ISNI 0000 0001 2194 0956, GRID grid.10267.32, Faculty of Arts, , Masaryk University, ; Arne Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno-střed, Czech Republic
                [14 ]ISNI 0000000109410645, GRID grid.11794.3a, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, , University of Santiago de Compostela, ; Praza Universidade, 1, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
                [15 ]INRAP, Centre Archéologique de Cesson-Sévigné, 37 rue du Bignon CS 67737, 35577 Cesson-Sévigné cedex, France
                [16 ]INRAP, Centre Archéologique de Bourguébus, Boulevard de l’Europe, 14540 Bourguébus, France
                [17 ]Centre de Recherche en Archéologie Archéosciences Histoire, UMR 6566 CNRS - CReAAH, Campus Beaulieu - Bât 24 - 25. 263 avenue du Général Leclerc - CS 74 205, 35042 RENNES Cedex, France
                [18 ]Museo de Prehistoria y Arqueología de Cantabria y Cuevas Prehistóricas de Cantabria-Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria, Ruiz de Alda, 19, E-39009 Santander, Spain
                [19 ]GRID grid.452421.4, IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, ; C/ Marcel.lí Domingo s/n- Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), E-43007 Tarragona, Spain
                [20 ]ISNI 0000 0001 2284 9230, GRID grid.410367.7, Área de Prehistoria, , Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), ; Avinguda de Catalunya 35, E-43002 Tarragona, Spain
                [21 ]Museu Arqueológico de São Miguel de Odrinhas. Av. Prof. Dr. D. Fernando de Almeida, São Miguel de Odrinhas, São João das Lampas, 2705-739 Sintra, Portugal
                [22 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1937 0247, GRID grid.5841.8, SERP (Seminari d’Estudis i Recerques Prehistòriques; SGR2017-00011), Departament d’Història i Arqueologia, Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona, ; c/ Montalegre 6, E-08001 Barcelona, Spain
                [23 ]ISNI 0000 0000 9601 989X, GRID grid.425902.8, ICREA, , Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, ; Passeig Lluís Companys 23, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain
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                : 18 September 2019
                : 31 March 2020
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                Funded by: FundRef https://doi.org/10.13039/100013285, EC | European Commission - Executive Agency for SMEs | Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME);
                Award ID: CerAM -653354- H2020-MSCA-IF-2014
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                Funded by: UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant [AH/E008232/1]
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