Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos
The appearance of farming, from its inception in the Near East around 12 000 years ago, finally reached the northwestern extremes of Europe by the fourth millennium BC or shortly thereafter. Various models have been invoked to explain the Neolithization of northern Europe; however, resolving these d...
Published in: | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |
---|---|
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
Other Authors: | |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
Published: |
2014
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10902/17935 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 |
id |
ftunivcantabria:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/17935 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftunivcantabria:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/17935 2023-05-15T17:41:17+02:00 Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos Cramp, Lucy J. E. Jones, Jennifer Rose Sheridan, Alison Smyth, Jessica Whelton, Helen Mulville, Jacqui Sharples, Niall Evershed, Richard P. Universidad de Cantabria 2014 http://hdl.handle.net/10902/17935 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 eng eng https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 1471-2954 0962-8452 http://hdl.handle.net/10902/17935 doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 Atribución 3.0 España http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ openAccess CC-BY Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, (2014), vol. 281, issue 1780 Neolithic diet Archaeology Pottery Biomarkers Lipids Stable carbon isotopes info:eu-repo/semantics/article publishedVersion 2014 ftunivcantabria https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 2023-02-20T10:27:42Z The appearance of farming, from its inception in the Near East around 12 000 years ago, finally reached the northwestern extremes of Europe by the fourth millennium BC or shortly thereafter. Various models have been invoked to explain the Neolithization of northern Europe; however, resolving these different scenarios has proved problematic due to poor faunal preservation and the lack of specificity achievable for commonly applied proxies. Here, we present new multi-proxy evidence, which qualitatively and quantitatively maps subsistence change in the northeast Atlantic archipelagos from the Late Mesolithic into the Neolithic and beyond. A model involving significant retention of hunter?gatherer?fisher influences was tested against one of the dominant adoptions of farming using a novel suite of lipid biomarkers, including dihydroxy fatty acids, ?-(o-alkylphenyl)- alkanoic acids and stable carbon isotope signatures of individual fatty acids preserved in cooking vessels. These new findings, together with archaeozoological and human skeletal collagen bulk stable carbon isotope proxies, unequivocally confirm rejection of marine resources by early farmers coinciding with the adoption of intensive dairy farming. This pattern of Neolithization contrasts markedly to that occurring contemporaneously in the Baltic, suggesting that geographically distinct ecological and cultural influences dictated the evolution of subsistence practices at this critical phase of European prehistory. This research was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NE/F021054/1), with research on the Irish material funded by EU FP7 (Marie Curie Actions) under REA grant agreement no. 273462. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northeast Atlantic Universidad de Cantabria: UCrea Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 1780 20132372 |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Universidad de Cantabria: UCrea |
op_collection_id |
ftunivcantabria |
language |
English |
topic |
Neolithic diet Archaeology Pottery Biomarkers Lipids Stable carbon isotopes |
spellingShingle |
Neolithic diet Archaeology Pottery Biomarkers Lipids Stable carbon isotopes Cramp, Lucy J. E. Jones, Jennifer Rose Sheridan, Alison Smyth, Jessica Whelton, Helen Mulville, Jacqui Sharples, Niall Evershed, Richard P. Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos |
topic_facet |
Neolithic diet Archaeology Pottery Biomarkers Lipids Stable carbon isotopes |
description |
The appearance of farming, from its inception in the Near East around 12 000 years ago, finally reached the northwestern extremes of Europe by the fourth millennium BC or shortly thereafter. Various models have been invoked to explain the Neolithization of northern Europe; however, resolving these different scenarios has proved problematic due to poor faunal preservation and the lack of specificity achievable for commonly applied proxies. Here, we present new multi-proxy evidence, which qualitatively and quantitatively maps subsistence change in the northeast Atlantic archipelagos from the Late Mesolithic into the Neolithic and beyond. A model involving significant retention of hunter?gatherer?fisher influences was tested against one of the dominant adoptions of farming using a novel suite of lipid biomarkers, including dihydroxy fatty acids, ?-(o-alkylphenyl)- alkanoic acids and stable carbon isotope signatures of individual fatty acids preserved in cooking vessels. These new findings, together with archaeozoological and human skeletal collagen bulk stable carbon isotope proxies, unequivocally confirm rejection of marine resources by early farmers coinciding with the adoption of intensive dairy farming. This pattern of Neolithization contrasts markedly to that occurring contemporaneously in the Baltic, suggesting that geographically distinct ecological and cultural influences dictated the evolution of subsistence practices at this critical phase of European prehistory. This research was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NE/F021054/1), with research on the Irish material funded by EU FP7 (Marie Curie Actions) under REA grant agreement no. 273462. |
author2 |
Universidad de Cantabria |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Cramp, Lucy J. E. Jones, Jennifer Rose Sheridan, Alison Smyth, Jessica Whelton, Helen Mulville, Jacqui Sharples, Niall Evershed, Richard P. |
author_facet |
Cramp, Lucy J. E. Jones, Jennifer Rose Sheridan, Alison Smyth, Jessica Whelton, Helen Mulville, Jacqui Sharples, Niall Evershed, Richard P. |
author_sort |
Cramp, Lucy J. E. |
title |
Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos |
title_short |
Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos |
title_full |
Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos |
title_fullStr |
Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos |
title_full_unstemmed |
Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos |
title_sort |
immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast atlantic archipelagos |
publishDate |
2014 |
url |
http://hdl.handle.net/10902/17935 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 |
genre |
Northeast Atlantic |
genre_facet |
Northeast Atlantic |
op_source |
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, (2014), vol. 281, issue 1780 |
op_relation |
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 1471-2954 0962-8452 http://hdl.handle.net/10902/17935 doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 |
op_rights |
Atribución 3.0 España http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ openAccess |
op_rightsnorm |
CC-BY |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 |
container_title |
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |
container_volume |
281 |
container_issue |
1780 |
container_start_page |
20132372 |
_version_ |
1766142765151813632 |