Multi-isotope evidence of population aggregation in the Natufian and scant migration during the early Neolithic of the Southern Levant

Autor: Juan José Ibáñez-Estévez, G. M. Nowell, Andrew R. Millard, Fanny Bocquentin, Zeidan Kafafi, Colin G. Macpherson, Marie Anton, Juan Muñiz, Joanne Peterkin, Jonathan Santana, Mohammad Alrousan
Přispěvatelé: Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Institución Milá y Fontanals., Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité (ArScAn), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Cogitamus, Department of Earth Sciences [Durham], Éco-Anthropologie (EA), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Yarmouk University (YU), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Éco-Anthropologie (EAE)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Burial
[SHS.ANTHRO-BIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology
Culture
Oxygen Isotopes
Social Environment
01 natural sciences
Isotopes
0601 history and archaeology
Israel
10. No inequality
History
Ancient
education.field_of_study
Carbon Isotopes
Multidisciplinary
Middle East
Geography
Ecology
Human migration
Agriculture
06 humanities and the arts
Medicine
Climate change adaptation
010506 paleontology
[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory
Southern Levant
Science
Human Migration
Population
Article
Strontium Isotopes
Human settlement
Humans
education
Dental Enamel
Psychology and behaviour
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Socioeconomic scenarios
060101 anthropology
Jordan
Syria
business.industry
Subsistence agriculture
Paleontology
Climate-change adaptation
business
Tooth
Zdroj: Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021)
Scientific Reports, 2021, 11, pp.11857. ⟨10.1038/s41598-021-90795-2⟩
Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 2021, 11, pp.11857. ⟨10.1038/s41598-021-90795-2⟩
Scientific Reports, 2021, Vol.11(1), pp.11857 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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ISSN: 2045-2322
2018-1019
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-90795-2⟩
Popis: Human mobility and migration are thought to have played essential roles in the consolidation and expansion of sedentary villages, long-distance exchanges and transmission of ideas and practices during the Neolithic transition of the Near East. Few isotopic studies of human remains dating to this early complex transition offer direct evidence of mobility and migration. The aim of this study is to identify first-generation non-local individuals from Natufian to Pre-Pottery Neolithic C periods to explore the scope of human mobility and migration during the Neolithic transition in the Southern Levant, an area that is central to this historical process. The study adopted a multi-approach resorting to strontium (87Sr/86Sr), oxygen (δ18OVSMOW) and carbon (δ13C) isotope ratio analyses of tooth enamel of 67 human individuals from five sites in Jordan, Syria, and Israel. The isotope ratios point both to a significant level of human migration and/or mobility in the Final Natufian which is compatible with early sedentarism and seasonal mobility and with population aggregation in early sedentary hamlets. The current findings, in turn, offer evidence that most individuals dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic were local to their respective settlements despite certain evidence of non-locals. Interestingly, isotopic data suggest that two possible non-local individuals benefitted from particular burial practices. The results underscore a decrease in human mobility and migration as farming became increasingly dominant among the subsistence strategies throughout the Neolithic transition of the Southern Levant.
The study was supported by a grant from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (European Commission, no. GA 750460; H2020-MSCA-IF-2016). In addition, this research was supported by the European Commission (Grant ERC-2019-StG 851733), the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Grant RTI2018-101923-J-I00, Grant RYC2019-028346-I and Grant HAR2016-74999-P), and Palarq Foundation. We would like to warmly thank François Valla and Hamoudi Khalaily who have given us permission to work on the anthropological collections of Mallaha.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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