Biomolecular analysis of the Epigravettian human remains from Riparo Tagliente in northern Italy.

Autor: Yavuz OE; Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. orhan-efe.yavuz@mnf.uni-tuebingen.de.; Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. orhan-efe.yavuz@mnf.uni-tuebingen.de., Oxilia G; Department of Translational Medicine for Romagna, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy., Silvestrini S; Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy., Tassoni L; Department of Chemistry G. Ciamician, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy., Reiter E; Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany., Drucker DG; Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.; Biogeology, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany., Talamo S; Department of Chemistry G. Ciamician, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy., Fontana F; Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Sezione di Scienze Preistoriche e Antropologiche, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy., Benazzi S; Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy., Posth C; Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. cosimo.posth@uni-tuebingen.de.; Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. cosimo.posth@uni-tuebingen.de.; Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. cosimo.posth@uni-tuebingen.de.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Communications biology [Commun Biol] 2024 Oct 30; Vol. 7 (1), pp. 1415. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 30.
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06979-9
Abstrakt: The Epigravettian human remains from Riparo Tagliente in northern Italy represent some of the earliest evidence of human occupation in the southern Alpine slopes after the Last Glacial Maximum. Genomic analyses of the 17,000-year-old Tagliente 2 mandible revealed the oldest presence of a genetic profile with affinities to the Near East in the Italian peninsula, which later became the most widespread hunter-gatherer ancestry across Europe. However, a comparable biomolecular characterization of the Tagliente 1 burial remains unavailable, preventing us from defining its biological relationships with Tagliente 2. Here, we apply paleogenomic, isotopic, and radiocarbon dating analyses on a femur fragment of Tagliente 1 and compare the reconstructed data with previously reported results from Tagliente 2. Despite their different isotopic signatures and non-overlapping radiocarbon dates, we reveal that the two human remains belong to the same male individual. We determine that the distinct isotopic values can be explained by different dietary practices during lifetime, whereas the non-overlapping radiocarbon dates can be caused by minimal radiocarbon contamination, possibly deriving from chemical treatments for conservation purposes. These findings highlight the importance of interdisciplinary biomolecular studies in offering new perspectives on the Palaeolithic fossil record and addressing long-standing bioarchaeological questions.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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