H2020Индивидуална стипендия2017–2019

DENPH · Dental anthropology at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition – insights on lifestyle and funerary behaviour from Neolithic Liguria (Italy)

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2017-05-01 → 2019-04-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 173 076 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Зъбите на хора от неолитна Лигурия и други епохи разкриват промени в храната и развитието, например при прехода към земеделие. Анализът им помага да се разбере как промяната в начина на живот е повлияла върху здравето и благосъстоянието на древните популации.

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Dental anthropology at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition – insights on lifestyle and funerary behaviour from Neolithic Liguria (Italy)

The DEN.P.H. project explored the dental changes and their dietary, evolutionary, and societal correlates at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, mainly by focusing on Neolithic skeletal assemblages from Liguria (8-4,000 BP; north-western coast of Italy), and by drawing comparisons with other Neolithic, Mesolithic and Palaeolithic samples, and pivotal sites such as Çatalhöyük in Turkey. With the Holocene (8000 BP), human groups shifted their subsistence from hunter-gatherers to settled farmers and herders, with the spread of the Neolithic techno-cultural complexes (about 7,000 years ago). The Neolithic Transition (i.e. the adoption of a production economy based on the domestication of plants and animals), dramatically changed several aspects of the human experience and various studies suggest this shift was accompanied by a worsening in health status and well-being. The study of Dental Anthropology is fundamental in bioarchaeology: teeth preserve better than bone, and do not undergo remodelling during life. They provide information on developmental disturbances, genetic variability, and are ideal for biochemical analyses. Furthermore, their decay and pathologies provide information on the environmental conditions of a population. The Recipient applied a number of advanced and classical dental anthropology methods on a large sample of adults and juveniles of the Ligurian Neolithic skeletal assemblage, as well as on comparative Neolithic, Mesolithic and Palaeolithic sample, to find answer concerning the changing ways of life and environments related to the “Neolithic Revolution”. The DEN.P.H. project investigated also the changing patterns in selective pressures, growth and development, diet and weaning practices, health, and their relationship with funerary behaviour at the beginning of the Holocene.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The purpose of the proposed research is using dental anthropology to contribute to our understanding of lifestyle, societies, and belief systems at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. This is a key moment of our past, during which we shifted from hunting-gathering to the production economy on which we still live. The project will mainly focus a large (150-200 individuals) Neolithic (8-4,000 BP) skeletal assemblage from Liguria (north-western coast of Italy). The research will also involve comparisons with other Neolithic, Mesolithic (10-8,000 BP), and Upper Palaeolithic (30-10,000) sites in Italy and Europe.A number advanced and classic methodologies in dental anthropology will be applied, including microCT analysis and 3D scanning, geometric morphometrics, and non-metric analysis. The resulting data about growth and development, diet, and disease, will be cross-referenced with information from the funerary rite. The research questions bioarchaeological, i.e. inherently multidisciplinary in methods and in the theoretical framework, taking advance of the body of theory of biological anthropology, human ecology, and (social) archaeology. In particular, we will investigate (1) the time of weaning in Neolithic children: was it more or less stressful than in earlier/later times? Were non-weaned children buried in living spaces with no rite? (2) how did dental external and internal structure changed with the Neolithic? Is it microadaptation or due to genetic drift? (3) how did growth and development of the dentition and the skeleton compare to modern times? (4) is the funerary rite influenced by biological parameters such as health, diet, provenience? Was there selection of the buried? Were Neolithic caves real cemeteries?The host organization, UBx, has an excellent and productive team of researchers specialized in dental anthropology, and offers advanced labs and specialized training, which complements the already excellent knowledge and potential of the Applicant.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX · BordeauxКоординаторФранция