@article{10902/21773,
year = {2020},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/21773},
abstract = {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 tracked, it is unclear how these nascent economies developed within different environmental and cultural settings. Using molecular and isotopic analysis of lipids from pottery, here we investigate the foods prepared by the earliest farming communities of the European Atlantic seaboard. Surprisingly, we find an absence of aquatic foods, including in ceramics from coastal sites, except in the Western Baltic where this tradition continued from indigenous ceramic using hunter-gatherer-fishers. The frequency of dairy products in pottery increased as farming was progressively introduced along a northerly latitudinal gradient. This finding implies that early farming communities needed time to adapt their economic practices before expanding into more northerly areas. Latitudinal differences in the scale of dairy production might also have influenced the evolution of adult lactase persistence across Europe.},
organization = {We thank Carl Heron for permission to include the stable carbon isotope values from the two Rødbyhavn sites. This work was supported by the European Commission [CerAM -653354- H2020-MSCA-IF-2014]; UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant [AH/E008232/1] and the British Academy [R1850601].},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
publisher = {Nature Communications, (2020) 11:2036},
title = {Latitudinal gradient in dairy production with the introduction of farming in Atlantic Europe},
author = {Cubas, Miriam and Lucquin, Alexandre and Robson, Harry K. and Colonese, André Carlo and Arias Cabal, Pablo and Aubry, Bruno and Billard, Cyrille and Jan, Denis and Diniz, Mariana and Fernandes, Ricardo and Fábregas Valcarce, Ramón and Germain-Vallée, Cécile and Juhel, Laurent and Lombera-Hermida, Arturo de and Marcigny, Cyril and Mazet, Sylvain and Marchand, Grégor and Neves, Cesar and Ontañón Peredo, Roberto and Rodríguez-Álvarez, Xosé Pedro},
}