Tafani Aurélien, Greco Enrico, Tykot Robert H, Barbieri Pierluigi, Gaspari Marco, Gabriele Caterina, Toma Andreea, Culea Mihaela, Manea Bogdan, Darie Adelina, Opriș Vasile, Ignat Theodor, Vasile Gabriel, Bălășescu Adrian, Radu Valentin, Popescu Gabriel, Covătaru Cristina, Marin Elia, Salesse Kévin, James Hannah F, Snoeck Christophe, Lazăr Cătălin
ArchaeoSciences Platform (ASp), Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA.
Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 2;15(1):23002. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-05671-0.
The Kodjadermen-Gumelnița-Karonovo VI human group (KGK VI) reached its maximal extension around 4500 BC, covering a large area comprised between southern Ukraine and northern Greece. Afterward, its distribution gradually receded, before vanishing altogether at the end of the fifth - early fourth millenniums BC. This study seeks to investigate the role of individual mobility during this process by performing strontium isotopic analyses on the human remains found at Gumelnița, Romania. It provides Sr/Sr values for 21 human tooth enamel samples from 17 different individuals, together with those of 60 plant samples from 20 different locations (15 in Romania and 5 in Bulgaria) that were used to create a bioavailable strontium (BASr) baseline of the region. To obtain reliable sex estimations, proteomic analysis of amelogenin of human tooth enamel were also performed on seven individuals. According to the results, four individuals, three females and one male, should be considered as non-local, and may have spent their childhood on the southern bank of the Danube River. These data suggest that individual mobility was particularly prevalent during the last centuries of the fifth millennium, when the KGK VI complex was undergoing a process of disintegration. Main Text.
科贾德曼-古梅尔尼察-卡罗诺沃六期人类群体（KGK VI）在公元前4500年左右达到最大分布范围，覆盖了乌克兰南部和希腊北部之间的大片区域。此后，其分布范围逐渐缩小，在公元前五世纪末至四世纪初完全消失。本研究旨在通过对罗马尼亚古梅尔尼察发现的人类遗骸进行锶同位素分析，探究个体迁移在这一过程中的作用。研究提供了来自17个不同个体的21个人类牙釉质样本的锶/锶值，以及来自20个不同地点（罗马尼亚15个，保加利亚5个）的60个植物样本的锶/锶值，用于建立该地区的生物可利用锶（BASr）基线。为了获得可靠的性别估计，还对7个人的人类牙釉质釉原蛋白进行了蛋白质组分析。根据结果，4个人，3名女性和1名男性，应被视为非本地居民，他们可能在多瑙河南岸度过了童年。这些数据表明，在公元前五世纪的最后几个世纪，当KGK VI复合体正在经历解体过程时，个体迁移尤为普遍。正文。
