El Zaatari Sireen, Hublin Jean-Jacques
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig D-04103, Germany; Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Paleoanthropology, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoecology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 72070, Germany.
Am J Phys Anthropol. 2014 Apr;153(4):570-81. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22457. Epub 2014 Jan 21.
This article presents the results of the occlusal molar microwear texture analysis of 32 adult Upper Paleolithic modern humans from a total of 21 European sites dating to marine isotope stages 3 and 2. The occlusal molar microwear textures of these specimens were analyzed with the aim of examining the effects of the climatic, as well as the cultural, changes on the diets of the Upper Paleolithic modern humans. The results of this analysis do not reveal any environmentally driven dietary shifts for the Upper Paleolithic hominins indicating that the climatic and their associated paleoecological changes did not force these humans to significantly alter their diets in order to survive. However, the microwear texture analysis does detect culturally related changes in the Upper Paleolithic humans' diets. Specifically, significant differences in diet were found between the earlier Upper Paleolithic individuals, i.e., those belonging to the Aurignacian and Gravettian contexts, and the later Magdalenian ones, such that the diet of the latter group was more varied and included more abrasive foods compared with those of the former.
本文展示了对来自21个欧洲遗址、可追溯至海洋同位素阶段3和2的32名成年旧石器时代晚期现代人的磨牙咬合面微磨损纹理分析结果。对这些标本的磨牙咬合面微磨损纹理进行分析，旨在研究气候以及文化变化对旧石器时代晚期现代人饮食的影响。该分析结果并未揭示旧石器时代人类存在任何受环境驱动的饮食转变，这表明气候及其相关的古生态变化并未迫使这些人类为了生存而显著改变饮食。然而，微磨损纹理分析确实检测到了旧石器时代人类饮食中与文化相关的变化。具体而言，发现早期旧石器时代个体，即那些属于奥瑞纳文化和格拉维特文化背景的个体，与晚期马格德林文化个体之间在饮食上存在显著差异，后者的饮食更加多样化，与前者相比包含更多的研磨性食物。
