Identification of microbial pathogens in Neolithic Scandinavian humans.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
07 Mar 2024
07 Mar 2024
Historique:
received:
01
06
2023
accepted:
01
03
2024
medline:
8
3
2024
pubmed:
8
3
2024
entrez:
7
3
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
With the Neolithic transition, human lifestyle shifted from hunting and gathering to farming. This change altered subsistence patterns, cultural expression, and population structures as shown by the archaeological/zooarchaeological record, as well as by stable isotope and ancient DNA data. Here, we used metagenomic data to analyse if the transitions also impacted the microbiome composition in 25 Mesolithic and Neolithic hunter-gatherers and 13 Neolithic farmers from several Scandinavian Stone Age cultural contexts. Salmonella enterica, a bacterium that may have been the cause of death for the infected individuals, was found in two Neolithic samples from Battle Axe culture contexts. Several species of the bacterial genus Yersinia were found in Neolithic individuals from Funnel Beaker culture contexts as well as from later Neolithic context. Transmission of e.g. Y. enterocolitica may have been facilitated by the denser populations in agricultural contexts.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38453993
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-56096-0
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-56096-0
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
5630Subventions
Organisme : Vetenskapsrådet
ID : 2017-02503
Organisme : Vetenskapsrådet
ID : 2019-00849
Organisme : Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
ID : P21-0266
Organisme : Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
ID : P19.0740:1
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© 2024. The Author(s).
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