The diet of the first Europeans from Atapuerca
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Título: | The diet of the first Europeans from Atapuerca |
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Autor/es: | Pérez-Pérez, Alejandro | Lozano, Marina | Romero, Alejandro | Martínez, Laura M. | Galbany, Jordi | Pinilla, Beatriz | Estebaranz-Sánchez, Ferran | Bermúdez de Castro, José María | Carbonell, Eudald | Arsuaga, Juan Luis |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Biotecnología |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Biotecnología |
Palabras clave: | Hominins | Atapuerca | Dietary habits | Dental wear processes |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Biología Celular |
Fecha de publicación: | 27-feb-2017 |
Editor: | Macmillan Publishers |
Cita bibliográfica: | Scientific Reports. 2017, 7: 43319. doi:10.1038/srep43319 |
Resumen: | Hominin dietary specialization is crucial to understanding the evolutionary changes of craniofacial biomechanics and the interaction of food processing methods’ effects on teeth. However, the diet-related dental wear processes of the earliest European hominins remain unknown because most of the academic attention has focused on Neandertals. Non-occlusal dental microwear provides direct evidence of the effect of chewed food particles on tooth enamel surfaces and reflects dietary signals over time. Here, we report for the first time the direct effect of dietary abrasiveness as evidenced by the buccal microwear patterns on the teeth of the Sima del Elefante-TE9 and Gran Dolina-TD6 Atapuerca hominins (1.2–0.8 million years ago − Myr) as compared with other Lower and Middle Pleistocene populations. A unique buccal microwear pattern that is found in Homo antecessor (0.96–0.8 Myr), a well-known cannibal species, indicates dietary practices that are consistent with the consumption of hard and brittle foods. Our findings confirm that the oldest European inhabitants ingested more mechanically-demanding diets than later populations because they were confronted with harsh, fluctuating environmental conditions. Furthermore, the influence of grit-laden food suggests that a high-quality meat diet from butchering processes could have fueled evolutionary changes in brain size. |
Patrocinador/es: | This work was supported by the research grants, from the Dirección General de Investigación of Ministerio Ciencia y Tecnología (Spain), numbers CGL2007-60802/BTE, CGL2011-22999, CGL2012-38434-C03-01/02/03 and CGL2014-52611-C2-1-P, as well as by the grant 2009SGR884 Group of Study on the Evolution of Hominins and other Primates and grant 2014SGR900 Group of Analyses on Socio-Ecological Processes, Cultural Changes and Population Dynamics during Prehistory (GAPS) and CERCA Programme of the Generalitat de Catalunya. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/63687 |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
DOI: | 10.1038/srep43319 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep43319 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - GIDBT - Artículos de Revistas INV - Grupo de Inmunología - Artículos de Revistas |
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