Microévolution d'une population historique. Étude des caractères discrets de la population de Missiminia (Soudan, IIIe-VIe siècle)

Crubézy, Éric; Telmon, Norbert; Sevin, Annie; Picard, Jacques; Rougé, Daniel; Larrouy, Georges; Braga, José António de Sousa; Ludes, Bertrand; Murail, Pascal

doi:10.3406/bmsap.1999.2537

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“…In this article, the attempt to reconstruct daily activities of a Neolithic sample is based on the approaches of Crubézy () and Hawkey and Merbs (). The difference between the two groups of males, those buried with one or several arrowheads and those buried without arrowheads, does not assign specific occupations to individual skeletons.…”

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Bioarchaeology of the middle Neolithic: Evidence for archery among early european farmers

Thomas

2014

American J Phys Anthropol

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This article focuses on Neolithic skeletons associated with the first monumental cemeteries of Western Europe and specifically those of the Cerny culture (Paris Basin, France). While this cultural context is an agrarian one, numerous arrowheads derived from complete hunting equipment are present in numerous graves. The goal of this work is to evaluate the morphological and pathological differences among the individuals according to the presence of arrowheads in their graves. It is postulated that those buried with such artifacts practiced archery, unlike their counterparts. Only adult males were selected for study to limit the effect of non-mechanical factors such as age- and sex-related modifications. The corpus consists of 36 males reliably identified among the 101 Cerny adults currently available. Thirteen men are associated with arrowheads. Variations in morphology and robusticity are evaluated on the basis of the external geometric properties of the appendicular skeleton. Entheseal changes to fibrocartilaginous attachment sites of upper and lower limbs are also examined. Both nonpathological skeletal adaptations and pathological indicators are consistent and reveal significant differences between the two groups compared. Functional adaptation is observed in the forearm bones and the clavicle in response to mechanical loads, and enthesopathies suggest repeated forceful use of upper limb muscles. These osteological changes specifically reflect the higher intensity upper limb activity of the men buried with arrowheads and correspond with the medical data on known archers, suggesting that this specific forceful task is linked to the practice of archery.

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Bioarchaeology of the middle Neolithic: Evidence for archery among early european farmers

Thomas

2014

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…Non-metric variations are commonly used as a measure of biological or genetic distance and variation in archaeological human skeletal samples (e.g. Berry, 1974;Crubézy et al, 1999), although some of them are also considered as activity-related skeletal morphologies (e.g. Stirland, 1987;Villotte et al, 2014).…”

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Several Infra‐cranial Non‐metric Variations in a Single Neolithic individual: A Common Genetic Underlying Predisposition?

Verna

Villotte

2016

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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“…1. Outlier income: new people were associated with gene flow from both sub-Saharan and Mediterranean sources [17,24,29,[33][34][35][36][37][38]. 2.…”

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Evaluation of DNA conservation in Nile-Saharan environment, Missiminia, in Nubia: Tracking maternal lineage of “X-Group”

Cherifi¹,

Amrani

2020

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Objective: We assessed DNA conservation using a range of archaeological skeletal samples from Sudan (Missiminia in Upper Nubia, 350 B.C.E to 1400 C.E) from the unfavorable conditions of the Saharan milieu and humidity of the Nile valley by tracking maternal lineage on the 'X-Group' (Ballaneans).Method: We were able to extract, amplify, and sequence mt-DNA HVS-I (Sanger sequencing method) from 11 petrous bone samples, eight for the X-Group set and three for the reference set (one Christian, one Late Meroitic, and one Meroitic).Results: It was possible to find the haplogroups (L1b, L2, L3, H2, N, T1a, X and W) and to carry out comparative data analysis in relation to haplogroup data cited in the literature. This investigation into the maternal lineage of X-Group (350 to 500 C.E.) origins allowed us to validate the efficiency of petrous bone sampling from ancient human remains from the Nile-Saharan milieu and established that the Ballaneans experienced an in-situ development with more admixture from the Levant region and North Africa.Conclusions: Our study used mt-DNA (HVS-I) to look for the biological origins of the X-Group from Upper-Nubia and demonstrated the feasibility of ancient DNA research on skeletons from the Nile-Saharan environment. The use of Next Sequencing Generation (NGS) should optimize and improve the detection of shorter DNA strands and their sequencing in complete genomes from ancient skeletal remains (petrous bones) from hot and humid environments.

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Microévolution d'une population historique. Étude des caractères discrets de la population de Missiminia (Soudan, IIIe-VIe siècle)

Cited by 28 publications

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Bioarchaeology of the middle Neolithic: Evidence for archery among early european farmers

Bioarchaeology of the middle Neolithic: Evidence for archery among early european farmers

Several Infra‐cranial Non‐metric Variations in a Single Neolithic individual: A Common Genetic Underlying Predisposition?

Evaluation of DNA conservation in Nile-Saharan environment, Missiminia, in Nubia: Tracking maternal lineage of “X-Group”

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