Paleoproteomic evidence reveals dairying supported prehistoric occupation of the highland Tibetan Plateau-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Paleoproteomic evidence reveals dairying supported prehistoric occupation of the highland Tibetan Plateau

Published:2023-04-14 Issue:15 Volume:9 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Adv.

Author:

Tang Li¹²³^ORCID,Wilkin Shevan¹⁴⁵^ORCID,Richter Kristine Korzow¹⁶^ORCID,Bleasdale Madeleine¹⁷^ORCID,Fernandes Ricardo⁸⁹¹⁰,He Yuanhong²¹¹^ORCID,Li Shuai²¹¹¹²,Petraglia Michael⁴¹³¹⁴^ORCID,Scott Ashley⁶¹⁵,Teoh Fallen K.Y.¹¹⁶^ORCID,Tong Yan¹⁷,Tsering Tinlei¹⁷,Tsho Yang¹⁷,Xi Lin¹⁸,Yang Feng²¹¹¹²,Yuan Haibing²¹¹^ORCID,Chen Zujun¹⁷,Roberts Patrick⁸¹³¹⁹,He Wei¹⁷^ORCID,Spengler Robert⁸²⁰^ORCID,Lu Hongliang²¹¹¹²^ORCID,Wangdue Shargan¹⁷^ORCID,Boivin Nicole¹¹³²¹²²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.

2. Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

3. Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.

4. Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

5. Institute for Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

6. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

7. Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK.

8. Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.

9. Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

10. Climate Change and History Research Initiative, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

11. School of Archaeology and Museology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

12. Center for Tibetan Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

13. School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

14. Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.

15. Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

16. Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.

17. Tibetan Cultural Relics Conservation Institute, Lhasa, China.

18. Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology, Xian, China.

19. isoTROPIC Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.

20. Domestication and Anthropogenic Evolution Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.

21. Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.

22. Griffith Sciences, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

Abstract

The extreme environments of the Tibetan Plateau offer considerable challenges to human survival, demanding novel adaptations. While the role of biological and agricultural adaptations in enabling early human colonization of the plateau has been widely discussed, the contribution of pastoralism is less well understood, especially the dairy pastoralism that has historically been central to Tibetan diets. Here, we analyze ancient proteins from the dental calculus ( n = 40) of all human individuals with sufficient calculus preservation from the interior plateau. Our paleoproteomic results demonstrate that dairy pastoralism began on the highland plateau by ~3500 years ago. Patterns of milk protein recovery point to the importance of dairy for individuals who lived in agriculturally poor regions above 3700 m above sea level. Our study suggests that dairy was a critical cultural adaptation that supported expansion of early pastoralists into the region’s vast, non-arable highlands, opening the Tibetan Plateau up to widespread, permanent human occupation.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.adf0345

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