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Child-mother relationships and childhood dietary patterns in the Iberian Penins...
Toso, Alice; Casimiro, Silvia; Oxborough, Charlotte; Schifano, Simona; García-Collado, Maite I.; Cardoso, Francisca Alves; Soares, JoaquinaThis study examines trends in infant diet, breastfeeding and weaning in Portugal through time in Roman, Medieval Muslim and Christian skeletal assemblages (1st to the 15th century CE). New stable carbon (delta 13C) and nitrogen (delta 15N) measurements were collected from 143 non-adults and 46 adults that are analysed alongside comparative published datasets from contemporaneous Iberian populations. A statistic...
Biomolecular insights into North African-related ancestry, mobility and diet in...
Silva, Marina; Oteo-García, Gonzalo; Martiniano, Rui; Guimarães, João; von Tersch, Matthew; Madour, Ali; Shoeib, Tarek; Fichera, AlessandroHistorical records document medieval immigration from North Africa to Iberia to create Islamic al-Andalus. Here, we present a low-coverage genome of an eleventh century CE man buried in an Islamic necropolis in Segorbe, near Valencia, Spain. Uniparental lineages indicate North African ancestry, but at the autosomal level he displays a mosaic of North African and European-like ancestries, distinct from any prese...
Beyond faith: Biomolecular evidence for changing urban economies in multi‐faith...
Toso, Alice; Schifano, Simona; Oxborough, Charlotte; McGrath, Krista; Spindler, Luke; Castro, Anabela; Evangelista, Lucy; Filipe, VanessaDuring the Middle Ages, Portugal witnessed unprecedented socioeconomic and religious changes under transitioning religious political rule. The implications of changing ruling powers for urban food systems and individual diets in medieval Portugal is poorly understood. This study aimed to elucidate the dietary impact of the Islamic and Christian conquests.
High status diet and health in Medieval Lisbon: a combined isotopic and osteolo...
Toso, Alice; Gaspar, Sara; Banha da Silva, Rodrigo; Garcia, Susana J.; Alexander, MichelleThis paper presents the first bioarchaeological study of Islamic diet and lifeways in medieval Portugal. Stable isotopes of δ13C and δ15N and osteological and paleopathological analyses are combined to explore the diet and health status of 27 humans buried within São Jorge Castle, Lisbon (eleventh to twelfth century), interpreted as a high status population. Human isotopic data are considered alongside an anima...
Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introducti...
Frantz, Laurent A. F.; Haile, James; Lin, Audrey T.; Scheu, Amelie; Geörg, Christina; Benecke, Norbert; Alexander, Michelle; Linderholm, AnnaArchaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the introduction of Near Eastern pigs into Europe, however, their characteristic mtDNA signature disappeared and was replaced by haplotypes associated with European wi...