尼安德特人的饮食之谜:来自西班牙加巴萨的牙齿珐琅质锌同位素提供的见解。

A Neandertal dietary conundrum: Insights provided by tooth enamel Zn isotopes from Gabasa, Spain.

机构信息

Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, UMR 5563, CNRS, 31400 Toulouse, France.

Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.

出版信息

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Oct 25;119(43):e2109315119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2109315119. Epub 2022 Oct 17.

Abstract

The characterization of Neandertals' diets has mostly relied on nitrogen isotope analyses of bone and tooth collagen. However, few nitrogen isotope data have been recovered from bones or teeth from Iberia due to poor collagen preservation at Paleolithic sites in the region. Zinc isotopes have been shown to be a reliable method for reconstructing trophic levels in the absence of organic matter preservation. Here, we present the results of zinc (Zn), strontium (Sr), carbon (C), and oxygen (O) isotope and trace element ratio analysis measured in dental enamel on a Pleistocene food web in Gabasa, Spain, to characterize the diet and ecology of a Middle Paleolithic Neandertal individual. Based on the extremely low δZn value observed in the Neandertal's tooth enamel, our results support the interpretation of Neandertals as carnivores as already suggested by δN isotope values of specimens from other regions. Further work could help identify if such isotopic peculiarities (lowest δZn and highest δN of the food web) are due to a metabolic and/or dietary specificity of the Neandertals.

摘要

尼安德特人饮食特征的描述主要依赖于骨骼和牙齿胶原质中的氮同位素分析。然而,由于该地区旧石器时代遗址的胶原质保存状况不佳,从伊比利亚半岛的骨骼或牙齿中获取的氮同位素数据很少。锌同位素已被证明是在没有有机质保存的情况下重建营养层次的可靠方法。在这里,我们介绍了在西班牙加巴萨(Gabasa)的更新世食物网中测量牙釉质中的锌(Zn)、锶(Sr)、碳(C)和氧(O)同位素以及微量元素比值分析的结果,以描述中更新世尼安德特人的饮食和生态。基于在尼安德特人的牙齿珐琅质中观察到的极低的δZn 值,我们的结果支持了尼安德特人作为肉食动物的解释,这与来自其他地区的标本的δN 同位素值已经表明的一样。进一步的工作可以帮助确定这种同位素特殊性(食物网中最低的δZn 和最高的δN)是否是由于尼安德特人的代谢和/或饮食特异性造成的。

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