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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2022

Dating the emergence of dairying by the first farmers of Central Europe using 14 C analysis of fatty acids preserved in pottery vessels

Emmanuelle Casanova
Timothy Knowles
Alex Bayliss
Mélanie Roffet-Salque
Joanna Pyzel
Michael Ilett
Ivo van Wijk
Richard Evershed

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Direct, accurate, and precise dating of archaeological pottery vessels is now achievable using a recently developed approach based on the radiocarbon dating of purified molecular components of food residues preserved in the walls of pottery vessels. The method targets fatty acids from animal fat residues, making it uniquely suited for directly dating the inception of new food commodities in prehistoric populations. Here, we report a large-scale application of the method by directly dating the introduction of dairying into Central Europe by the Linearbandkeramik (LBK) cultural group based on dairy fat residues. The radiocarbon dates ( n = 27) from the 54th century BC from the western and eastern expansion of the LBK suggest dairy exploitation arrived with the first settlers in the respective regions and were not gradually adopted later. This is particularly significant, as contemporaneous LBK sites showed an uneven distribution of dairy exploitation. Significantly, our findings demonstrate the power of directly dating the introduction of new food commodities, hence removing taphonomic uncertainties when assessing this indirectly based on associated cultural materials or other remains.
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Emmanuelle Casanova, Timothy Knowles, Alex Bayliss, Mélanie Roffet-Salque, Volker Heyd, et al.. Dating the emergence of dairying by the first farmers of Central Europe using 14 C analysis of fatty acids preserved in pottery vessels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022, 119 (43), pp.e2109325118. ⟨10.1073/pnas.2109325118⟩. ⟨hal-03834946⟩
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