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The Iceman’s Last Meal Consisted of Fat, Wild Meat, and Cereals

Maixner, Frank ; Turaev, Dmitrij ; Cazenave-Gassiot, Amaury ; Janko, Marek ; Krause-Kyora, Ben ; Hoopmann, Michael R. ; Kusebauch, Ulrike ; Sartain, Mark ; Guerriero, Gea ; O’Sullivan, Niall ; Teasdale, Matthew ; Cipollini, Giovanna ; Paladin, Alice ; Mattiangeli, Valeria ; Samadelli, Marco ; Tecchiati, Umberto ; Putzer, Andreas ; Palazoglu, Mine ; Meissen, John ; Lösch, Sandra ; Rausch, Philipp ; Baines, John F. ; Kim, Bum Jin ; An, Hyun-Joo ; Gostner, Paul ; Egarter-Vigl, Eduard ; Malfertheiner, Peter ; Keller, Andreas ; Stark, Robert W. ; Wenk, Markus ; Bishop, David ; Bradley, Daniel G. ; Fiehn, Oliver ; Engstrand, Lars ; Moritz, Robert L. ; Doble, Philip ; Franke, Andre ; Nebel, Almut ; Oeggl, Klaus ; Rattei, Thomas ; Grimm, Rudolf ; Zink, Albert (2018)
The Iceman’s Last Meal Consisted of Fat, Wild Meat, and Cereals.
In: Current Biology, 28 (14)
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.067
Artikel, Bibliographie

Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

The history of humankind is marked by the constant adoption of new dietary habits affecting human physiology, metabolism, and even the development of nutrition-related disorders. Despite clear archaeological evidence for the shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture in Neolithic Europe [1], very little information exists on the daily dietary habits of our ancestors. By undertaking a complementary -omics approach combined with microscopy, we analyzed the stomach content of the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old European glacier mummy [2, 3]. He seems to have had a remarkably high proportion of fat in his diet, supplemented with fresh or dried wild meat, cereals, and traces of toxic bracken. Our multipronged approach provides unprecedented analytical depth, deciphering the nutritional habit, meal composition, and food-processing methods of this Copper Age individual.

Typ des Eintrags: Artikel
Erschienen: 2018
Autor(en): Maixner, Frank ; Turaev, Dmitrij ; Cazenave-Gassiot, Amaury ; Janko, Marek ; Krause-Kyora, Ben ; Hoopmann, Michael R. ; Kusebauch, Ulrike ; Sartain, Mark ; Guerriero, Gea ; O’Sullivan, Niall ; Teasdale, Matthew ; Cipollini, Giovanna ; Paladin, Alice ; Mattiangeli, Valeria ; Samadelli, Marco ; Tecchiati, Umberto ; Putzer, Andreas ; Palazoglu, Mine ; Meissen, John ; Lösch, Sandra ; Rausch, Philipp ; Baines, John F. ; Kim, Bum Jin ; An, Hyun-Joo ; Gostner, Paul ; Egarter-Vigl, Eduard ; Malfertheiner, Peter ; Keller, Andreas ; Stark, Robert W. ; Wenk, Markus ; Bishop, David ; Bradley, Daniel G. ; Fiehn, Oliver ; Engstrand, Lars ; Moritz, Robert L. ; Doble, Philip ; Franke, Andre ; Nebel, Almut ; Oeggl, Klaus ; Rattei, Thomas ; Grimm, Rudolf ; Zink, Albert
Art des Eintrags: Bibliographie
Titel: The Iceman’s Last Meal Consisted of Fat, Wild Meat, and Cereals
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 23 Juli 2018
Verlag: Elsevier Science Publishing
Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: Current Biology
Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: 28
(Heft-)Nummer: 14
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.067
URL / URN: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.067
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

The history of humankind is marked by the constant adoption of new dietary habits affecting human physiology, metabolism, and even the development of nutrition-related disorders. Despite clear archaeological evidence for the shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture in Neolithic Europe [1], very little information exists on the daily dietary habits of our ancestors. By undertaking a complementary -omics approach combined with microscopy, we analyzed the stomach content of the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old European glacier mummy [2, 3]. He seems to have had a remarkably high proportion of fat in his diet, supplemented with fresh or dried wild meat, cereals, and traces of toxic bracken. Our multipronged approach provides unprecedented analytical depth, deciphering the nutritional habit, meal composition, and food-processing methods of this Copper Age individual.

Freie Schlagworte: Iceman, stomach content, European Copper Age mummy, diet, last meal, multi-omics study, ancient DNA, lipidomics, proteomics, microscopy
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 11 Fachbereich Material- und Geowissenschaften
11 Fachbereich Material- und Geowissenschaften > Materialwissenschaft
11 Fachbereich Material- und Geowissenschaften > Materialwissenschaft > Fachgebiet Physics of Surfaces
Exzellenzinitiative
Exzellenzinitiative > Exzellenzcluster
Exzellenzinitiative > Exzellenzcluster > Center of Smart Interfaces (CSI)
Hinterlegungsdatum: 19 Jul 2018 08:15
Letzte Änderung: 21 Sep 2021 07:20
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Sponsoren: We acknowledge the following funding sources:, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, grant legge 14 agreement n. 1/40.3, 23.11.2012 (F.M., N.O., G.C., A. Paladin, M. Samadelli, A.Z.),, the DFG Graduate School Human Development in Landscapes at Kiel University (B.K.-K., A.N.),, and the DFG Excellence Cluster Inflammation at Interfaces at Kiel University (B.K.-K., J.F.B., A.F., A.N.)., M.T. and V.M. were supported by European Research Council Investigator Grant 295729-CodeX to D.G.B. The National Institutes of Health from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences under Grant Nos. R01 GM087221 (R.L.M.), S10 RR027584 (R.L.M.), and the 2P50 GM076547/Center for Systems Biology (R.L.M.)., The authors thank the Department of Innovation, Research and University of the Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano for covering the open access publications costs.
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