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Isotope and proteomics evidence for ancient mobility and sex bias of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Jericho in Southern Levant

ABSTRACT: The transition from mobility to more sedentism is one of the essential processes at the pre-pottery stage of human societies, which takes place asynchronously in different communities in different regions. Being one of the representatives and long-termly occupied sites in the southern Levant, Jericho had played a role of frontrunner in this progress in the world based on the previous researches on archaeological materials. This study applied multi‑approach of strontium (87Sr/86Sr), oxygen (δ18O) and carbon (δ13C) isotope analyses on the enamel of 52 human teeth from Pre-Pottery-Neolithic layers of Jericho to provide direct evidence for human mobility investigating the degree of consolidation and flexibility of the Jericho society in PPN periods in terms of social organization. In additional, we applied proteomic analysis of sex-specific amelogenin peptides in tooth enamel, an approach with high sensitivity and stability, for sex estimation on the sampled individuals. The results of the isotope ratios revealed no structural mobility at this stage but with occasional cases of non-local individuals who probably migrated from afar. Interestingly, the results of the sex identification of the randomly selected samples (n=44) showed a significant sex bias ratio in the Jericho society during the PPN periods.

ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens

SUBMITTER: Anchuan Fan

PROVIDER: PXD037215 | iProX | Sat Oct 08 00:00:00 BST 2022

REPOSITORIES: iProX

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Isotopic and proteomic evidence for communal stability at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Jericho in the Southern Levant.

Wang Xiaoran X Zhang Baoshuai B Sun Yufeng Y Ingman Tara T Eisenmann Stefanie S Lucas Mary M Scott Erin E Ilgner Jana J Wu Gao G le Roux Petrus P Wu Xiaotong X Zhang Xingxiang X Fan Anchuan A Roberts Patrick P Stockhammer Philipp W PW

Scientific reports 20230929 1

As one of the key, long-term occupied sites in the Southern Levant, Jericho was one of the most important early Neolithic centres to witness social and economic changes associated with the domestication of plants and animals. This study applies strontium (87Sr/86Sr), oxygen (δ18O) and carbon (δ13C) isotope analyses to the enamel of 52 human teeth from Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) layers of Jericho to directly study human diet and mobility and investigat ...[more]

PMID: 37773428

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Isotope and proteomics evidence for ancient mobility and sex bias of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Jericho in Southern Levant

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Isotopic and proteomic evidence for communal stability at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Jericho in the Southern Levant.

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