Trophic ecology of a Late Pleistocene early modern human from tropical Southeast Asia inferred from zinc isotopes.
Diet
Enamel
Homo sapiens
Hunter-gatherer
Stable carbon isotopes
Tam Pà Ling
Journal
Journal of human evolution
ISSN: 1095-8606
Titre abrégé: J Hum Evol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0337330
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2021
12 2021
Historique:
received:
30
04
2021
revised:
30
08
2021
accepted:
30
08
2021
pubmed:
17
10
2021
medline:
25
12
2021
entrez:
16
10
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Tam Pà Ling, a cave site in northeastern Laos, has yielded the earliest skeletal evidence of Homo sapiens in mainland Southeast Asia. The reliance of Pleistocene humans in rainforest settings on plant or animal resources is still largely unstudied, mainly due to poor collagen preservation in fossils from tropical environments precluding stable nitrogen isotope analysis, the classical trophic level proxy. However, isotopic ratios of zinc (Zn) in bioapatite constitute a promising proxy to infer trophic and dietary information from fossil vertebrates, even under adverse tropical taphonomic conditions. Here, we analyzed the zinc isotope composition (
Identifiants
pubmed: 34655947
pii: S0047-2484(21)00127-5
doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103075
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Carbon Isotopes
0
Nitrogen Isotopes
0
Zinc Isotopes
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
103075Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no competing interests.