Godinho Ricardo Miguel, Umbelino Cláudia, Valera António Carlos, Carvalho António Faustino, Bicho Nuno, Cascalheira João, Gonçalves Célia, Smith Patricia
Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB), Faculdade das Ciências Humanas e Sociais, University of Algarve, Campus Gambelas, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal.
Department of Life Sciences, Research Centre for Anthropology and Health, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Sci Rep. 2023 Oct 3;13(1):16648. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-42846-z.
Neolithic farming and animal husbandry were first developed in the Near East ~ 10,000 BCE and expanded westwards, reaching westernmost Iberia no later than 5500 BCE. It resulted in major social, cultural, economic and dietary changes. Yet, the impact of this change on human mandibular morphology in Iberia is yet to be assessed, which is regrettable because mandible form is impacted by population history and diet. In this study we used Mesolithic to Chalcolithic Iberian samples to examine the impact of this transition on mandibular morphology. We also compared these samples with a Southern Levantine Chalcolithic population to assess their relationship. Lastly, we assessed dental wear to determine if the morphological differences identified were related to the material properties of the diet. We found differences between samples in mandibular shape but not size, which we attribute to contrasting population histories between Mesolithic and later populations. Some differences in the severity of dental wear were also found between Mesolithic and later Iberian samples, and smaller between the Mesolithic Iberians and southern Levantines. Little relationship was found between wear magnitude and mandibular shape. Altogether, our results show that the Mesolithic-Neolithic Iberian transition resulted in a meaningful change in mandibular morphology, which was likely driven more by population history than by dietary change.
新石器时代的农耕和畜牧业最早于公元前10000年左右在近东地区发展起来,并向西扩展,最迟在公元前5500年到达最西部的伊比利亚半岛。这导致了重大的社会、文化、经济和饮食变化。然而,这种变化对伊比利亚半岛人类下颌形态的影响尚未得到评估,这令人遗憾,因为下颌形态会受到人口历史和饮食的影响。在本研究中,我们使用了中石器时代到铜石并用时代的伊比利亚样本,来研究这种转变对下颌形态的影响。我们还将这些样本与黎凡特南部铜石并用时代的人群进行比较,以评估它们之间的关系。最后,我们评估了牙齿磨损情况,以确定所发现的形态差异是否与饮食的物质特性有关。我们发现样本之间在下颌形状上存在差异,但在下颌大小上没有差异,我们将其归因于中石器时代人群与后来人群不同的人口历史。在中石器时代样本与后来的伊比利亚样本之间,牙齿磨损的严重程度也存在一些差异,而在中石器时代的伊比利亚人与黎凡特南部人之间差异较小。磨损程度与下颌形状之间几乎没有关系。总之,我们的结果表明,中石器时代到新石器时代的伊比利亚转变导致了下颌形态的显著变化,这种变化可能更多地是由人口历史而非饮食变化驱动的。