The transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture in Nubia: dental evidence for and against selection, population continuity and discontinuity.

ABSTRACT: Some researchers posit population continuity between Late Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers of the late Pleistocene and Holocene agriculturalists from Lower (northern) Nubia, in northeast Africa. Substantial craniodental differences in these time-successive groups are suggested to result from in situ evolution. Specifically, these populations are considered a model example for subsistence-related selection worldwide in the transition to agriculture. Others question continuity, with findings indicating that the largely homogeneous Holocene populations differ significantly from late Pleistocene Lower Nubians. If the latter are representative of the local populace, post-Pleistocene discontinuity is implied. So who was ancestral to the Holocene agriculturalists? Dental morphological analyse

SUBMITTER: Irish JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8187995 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature