Diet of the earliest modern humans in East Asia

doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.989308

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	Diet of the earliest modern humans in East Asia
	Wu, Yan 1,2; Tao, Dawei 3; Wu, Xiujie 1,2; Liu, Wu1,2 ; Cai, Yanjun 4
	2022-08-31
发表期刊	FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
ISSN	1664-462X
卷号	13 期号:989308 页码:10
摘要	Reconstructing diet can offer an improved understanding toward the origin and evolution of modern humans. However, the diet of early modern humans in East Asia is poorly understood. Starch analysis of dental calculus is harmless to precious fossil hominins and provides the most direct evidence of plant food sources in early modern human dietary records. In this paper, we examined the starch grains in dental calculus from Fuyan Cave hominins in Daoxian (South China), which were the earliest modern humans in East Asia. Our results reveal the earliest direct evidence of a hominin diet made of acorns, roots, tubers, grass seeds, and other yet-unidentified plants in marine isotope stage 5 between 120 and 80 ka. Our study also provides the earliest evidence that acorns may have played an important role in subsistence strategies. There may have been a long-lasting tradition of using these plants during the Late Pleistocene in China. Plant foods would have been a plentiful source of carbohydrates that greatly increased energy availability to human tissues with high glucose demands. Our study provides the earliest direct consumption of carbohydrates-rich plant resources from modern humans in China for the first time. In addition, it also helps elucidate the evolutionary advantages of early modern humans in the late Middle and early Upper Pleistocene.
关键词	hominins diet starch analysis dental calculus plants
DOI	10.3389/fpls.2022.989308
关键词[WOS]	STARCH GRAIN ANALYSIS ; YELLOW-RIVER VALLEY ; HUMAN DENTAL CALCULUS ; PLANT FOODS ; CHINA ; SITE ; CONSUMPTION ; NEANDERTHALS ; EXPLOITATION ; MICROFOSSILS
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41877427] ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences[2018099]
WOS研究方向	Plant Sciences
WOS类目	Plant Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000854072000001
出版者	FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/22037
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
通讯作者	Wu, Yan
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Zhengzhou Univ, Sch Hist, Dept Archaeol, Zhengzhou, Peoples R China 4.Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Inst Global Environm Change, Xian, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wu, Yan,Tao, Dawei,Wu, Xiujie,et al. Diet of the earliest modern humans in East Asia[J]. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE,2022,13(989308):10.
APA	Wu, Yan,Tao, Dawei,Wu, Xiujie,Liu, Wu,&Cai, Yanjun.(2022).Diet of the earliest modern humans in East Asia.FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE,13(989308),10.
MLA	Wu, Yan,et al."Diet of the earliest modern humans in East Asia".FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 13.989308(2022):10.

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