Enamel-dentine junction morphology reveals population replacement and mobility in the late prehistoric Middle Nile Valley.

ABSTRACT: Transitions from foraging to food-production represent a worldwide turning point in recent human history. In the Middle Nile Valley this cultural shift occurred between the sixth and beginning of the fifth millennium BCE. Significant craniodental morphological differences remain inadequately tested by biometric analyses of ancestry and may reflect population origins or diet change between the last hunter-fisher-gatherers (Mesolithic) and first food-producers (Neolithic). Moreover, with no ancient DNA data for this region and very few morphological studies including large samples of Mesolithic individuals, the late prehistoric population history of the Nile Valley remains unclear. Here, we present enamel-dentine junction (EDJ) morphological analyses (based on X-ray microtomography) and biol

SUBMITTER: Martin N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12012513 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature