Human remains from Arma di Nasino (Liguria) provide novel insights into the paleoecology of early Holocene foragers in northwestern Italy.

Autor: Sparacello VS; Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Sezione di Neuroscienze e Antropologia, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy. vitale.sparacello@unica.it., Goude G; CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ, Minist Culture, LAMPEA, UMR 7269, 5 rue du Château de l'Horloge, 13097, Aix-en-Provence, France., Varalli A; CASEs Research Group, Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain., Dori I; Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy., Gravel-Miguel C; Département d'Anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.; Center for Applied Fire and Ecosystem Science, New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, USA., Riel-Salvatore J; Département d'Anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada., Palstra SWL; Centre for Isotope Research, ESRIG, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands., Moggi-Cecchi J; Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy., Negrino F; DAFIST - Dipartimento di Antichità, Filosofia, Storia, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy., Starnini E; Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme Del Sapere, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2023 Sep 29; Vol. 13 (1), pp. 16415. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 29.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-40438-5
Abstrakt: We report the discovery and analysis of new Mesolithic human remains-dated to ca. 10,200-9000 cal. BP-from Arma di Nasino in Liguria, northwestern Italy, an area rich in Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic attestations, but for which little information on Early Holocene occupation was available. The multi-proxy isotopic profile of the two individuals reveals that-despite the proximity of the site to the Mediterranean seashore and the use of shellfish as decorative elements in burials-the ecology of these foragers was based on the exploitation of high-altitude resources, presumably in the nearby western Alps. This constitutes the first direct evidence in northwestern Italy of a significant ecological shift towards higher altitudes following deglaciation, especially when compared to isotopic data of the Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from the nearby site of Arene Candide Cave, who exploited terrestrial resources nearer to the coast and at lower altitudes. While the biochemistry of Nasino's skeletal assemblage revealed new details on Early Holocene lifeways in the area, the osteobiography of one individual offers glimpses into the life experience of a specific female forager, depicting a scenario of early skeletal trauma, developmental disturbances, long-term impairments, and resilience amongst the last European hunter-gatherers.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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