Dispersal of crop-livestock and geographical-temporal variation of subsistence along the Steppe and Silk Roads across Eurasia in prehistory

G Dong, L Du, L Yang, M Lu, M Qiu, H Li, M Ma… - Science China Earth …, 2022 - Springer
The innovations of agricultural production and their extensive dispersal promoted the
transformation of human livelihoods and profoundly influenced the evolution of human-land …

A call for caution in the analysis of lipids and other small biomolecules from archaeological contexts

HL Whelton, S Hammann, LJE Cramp, J Dunne… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The analysis of lipids and other biomolecules preserved in archaeological artefacts, using
chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques, is a powerful approach, which has …

Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe

RP Evershed, G Davey Smith, M Roffet-Salque… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract In European and many African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian populations,
lactase persistence (LP) is the most strongly selected monogenic trait to have evolved over …

The impact of farming on prehistoric culinary practices throughout Northern Europe

A Lucquin, HK Robson, E Oras… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
To investigate changes in culinary practices associated with the arrival of farming, we
analysed the organic residues of over 1,000 pottery vessels from hunter-gatherer-fisher and …

Mobility and social change: understanding the European Neolithic period after the archaeogenetic revolution

M Furholt - Journal of archaeological research, 2021 - Springer
This paper discusses and synthesizes the consequences of the archaeogenetic revolution to
our understanding of mobility and social change during the Neolithic period in Europe (6500 …

Tracking the transition to agriculture in Southern Europe through ancient DNA analysis of dental calculus

C Ottoni, D Borić, O Cheronet… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Archaeological dental calculus, or mineralized plaque, is a key tool to track the evolution of
oral microbiota across time in response to processes that impacted our culture and biology …

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

M Cubas, A Lucquin, HK Robson, AC Colonese… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

Investigating the formation and diagnostic value of ω‐(o‐alkylphenyl)alkanoic acids in ancient pottery

M Bondetti, E Scott, B Courel, A Lucquin… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐chain ω‐(o‐alkylphenyl) alkanoic acids (APAAs) derived from the heating of
unsaturated fatty acids have been widely used for the identification of aquatic products in …

Organic residue analysis shows sub-regional patterns in the use of pottery by Northern European hunter–gatherers

B Courel, HK Robson, A Lucquin… - Royal Society …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The introduction of pottery vessels to Europe has long been seen as closely linked with the
spread of agriculture and pastoralism from the Near East. The adoption of pottery technology …

Neolithic farmers or Neolithic foragers? Organic residue analysis of early pottery from Rakushechny Yar on the Lower Don (Russia)

M Bondetti, L González Carretero, E Dolbunova… - Archaeological and …, 2021 - Springer
The emergence of pottery in Europe is associated with two distinct traditions: hunter-
gatherers in the east of the continent during the early 6th millennium BC and early …