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...
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ftunivcardiff:oai:https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk:60105 2023-06-11T04:15:14+02:00 Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos Cramp, Lucy J. E. Jones, Jennifer Sheridan, Alison Smyth, Jessica Whelton, Helen Mulville, Jacqui Sharples, Niall Evershed, Richard P. 2014-04-07 application/pdf https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/60105/ https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/60105/1/20132372.full.pdf en eng Royal Society, The https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/60105/1/20132372.full.pdf Cramp, Lucy J. E., Jones, Jennifer orcid:0000-0001-6919-0437 orcid:0000-0001-6919-0437, Sheridan, Alison, Smyth, Jessica, Whelton, Helen, Mulville, Jacqui https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A056454W.html orcid:0000-0002-9392-3693 orcid:0000-0002-9392-3693, Sharples, Niall https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A0332488.html orcid:0000-0001-8736-2554 orcid:0000-0001-8736-2554 and Evershed, Richard P. 2014. Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1780) , 20132372. 10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 file https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/60105/1/20132372.full.pdf doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 cc_by CC Archaeology Article PeerReviewed 2014 ftunivcardiff https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 2023-05-04T22:33:39Z 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, ω-(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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northeast Atlantic Cardiff University: ORCA (Online Research @ Cardiff) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 1780 20132372 |
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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, ω-(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. |
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Cramp, Lucy J. E. Jones, Jennifer Sheridan, Alison Smyth, Jessica Whelton, Helen Mulville, Jacqui Sharples, Niall Evershed, Richard P. |
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Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos |
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Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos |
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Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos |
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Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos |
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https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/60105/1/20132372.full.pdf Cramp, Lucy J. E., Jones, Jennifer orcid:0000-0001-6919-0437 orcid:0000-0001-6919-0437, Sheridan, Alison, Smyth, Jessica, Whelton, Helen, Mulville, Jacqui https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A056454W.html orcid:0000-0002-9392-3693 orcid:0000-0002-9392-3693, Sharples, Niall https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A0332488.html orcid:0000-0001-8736-2554 orcid:0000-0001-8736-2554 and Evershed, Richard P. 2014. Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1780) , 20132372. 10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 file https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/60105/1/20132372.full.pdf doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.2372 |
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