The Iceman's Last Meal Consisted of Fat, Wild Meat, and Cereals
| Autor: | Paul Gostner, Mine Palazoglu, Philip Doble, Lars Engstrand, Matthew D. Teasdale, Eduard Egarter-Vigl, Mark J. Sartain, Peter Malfertheiner, John K. Meissen, Ben Krause-Kyora, Thomas Rattei, Sandra Lösch, Oliver Fiehn, Giovanna Cipollini, Andre Franke, Michael R. Hoopmann, Hyun Joo An, Amaury Cazenave-Gassiot, Robert W. Stark, Philipp Rausch, John F. Baines, Frank Maixner, Albert Zink, Almut Nebel, Andreas Keller, Marco Samadelli, Niall O’Sullivan, Dmitrij Turaev, Gea Guerriero, Andreas Putzer, Daniel G. Bradley, Rudolf Grimm, Umberto Tecchiati, Robert L. Moritz, Markus R. Wenk, Ulrike Kusebauch, Alice Paladin, David P. Bishop, Valeria Mattiangeli, Marek Janko, Klaus Oeggl, Bum Jin Kim |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Maixner, Frank; Turaev, Dmitrij; Cazenave-Gassiot, Amaury; Janko, Marek; Krause-Kyora, Ben; Hoopmann, Michael R; Kusebauch, Ulrike; Sartain, Mark; Guerriero, Gea; O'Sullivan, Niall; Teasdale, Matthew; Cipollini, Giovanna; Paladin, Alice; Mattiangeli, Valeria; Samadelli, Marco; Tecchiati, Umberto; Putzer, Andreas; Palazoglu, Mine; Meissen, John; Lösch, Sandra; ... (2018). The Iceman's Last Meal Consisted of Fat, Wild Meat, and Cereals. Current biology, 28(14), 2348-2355.e9. Elsevier 10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.067 Current Biology |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.067 |
| Popis: | Summary The history of humankind is marked by the constant adoption of new dietary habits affecting human physiology, metabolism, and even the development of nutrition-related disorders. Despite clear archaeological evidence for the shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture in Neolithic Europe [1], very little information exists on the daily dietary habits of our ancestors. By undertaking a complementary -omics approach combined with microscopy, we analyzed the stomach content of the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old European glacier mummy [2, 3]. He seems to have had a remarkably high proportion of fat in his diet, supplemented with fresh or dried wild meat, cereals, and traces of toxic bracken. Our multipronged approach provides unprecedented analytical depth, deciphering the nutritional habit, meal composition, and food-processing methods of this Copper Age individual. Highlights • The last meal of the Iceman, a European Copper Age mummy, was reconstructed • Our multipronged approach deciphers the meal composition and food processing • His high-fat diet was supplemented with wild meat and cereals Maixner et al. report the dietary reconstruction of the Iceman’s last meal using a combined multi-omics approach. The stomach content analysis of the 5,300-year-old glacier mummy shows that the Iceman’s diet preceding his death was a mix of carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids, well adjusted to the energetic requirements of his high-altitude trekking. |
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