5000 years of dietary variations of prehistoric farmers in the Great Hungarian Plain.

ABSTRACT: The development of farming was a catalyst for the evolution of the human diet from the varied subsistence practices of hunter-gatherers to the more globalised food economy we depend upon today. Although there has been considerable research into the dietary changes associated with the initial spread of farming, less attention has been given to how dietary choices continued to develop during subsequent millennia. A paleogenomic time transect for 5 millennia of human occupation in the Great Hungarian Plain spanning from the advent of the Neolithic to the Iron Age, showed major genomic turnovers. Here we assess where these genetic turnovers are associated with corresponding dietary shifts, by examining the carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios of 52 individuals. Results provide evidence th

SUBMITTER: Gamarra B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5944993 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature