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SUMMARY:Human Past Journal Club
DESCRIPTION:Paper to discuss: \nColleter\, R.\, Jaouen\, K.\, Garcia\, D.\, & Richards\, M.P. (2026). Dietary inequality marker reveals 10\,000 years of gender and cultural disparity in Europe\, PNAS Nexus\, vol. 5 (4)\, pgag033\, https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/4/pgag033/8586686 \nDiscussion moderators: Mattias Sjölander & Daniel Brown\, CHP postdoctoral researchers \nAbstract\n\nDiet is a key to evaluating social and health inequalities over time\, as it reflects disparities in access to resources often linked to socioeconomic and gender factors. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes\, while semi-quantitative\, typically limit intersite comparisons\, as the results are tied to local baseline isotope values. \nIn this study\, we overcome this limitation by applying the interdecile ratio—a metric from economics—to isotope data from 12\,281 individuals across 393 European sites over millennia. Our isotope-based dietary inequality index reveals the nonlinear evolution of dietary disparities over time and across different geographical areas. \nSex-based disparities are evident throughout all time periods. Male individuals are consistently overrepresented in the upper deciles\, indicating greater access to animal proteins\, while females dominate the lower deciles\, reflecting more restricted access. Neolithic societies exhibit homogeneous diets at the population level\, but animal protein consumption tends to differ between men and women. \nAs expected\, Bronze Age carbon interdecile indexes mark increasing dietary inequality\, likely linked to agricultural advances and social hierarchies. Dietary disparities peak during Antiquity\, although the gap between the sexes narrows slightly. This diachronic analysis highlights the complex interactions between diet\, social structures\, and gender and provides a robust framework for comparative studies of health inequalities in archaeology.
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SUMMARY:Mini-Seminar: Biomolecular perspectives on Corded Ware subsistence: integrating isotopic\, proteomic and lipid evidence in the context of steppe-derived economies\, with Łukasz Pospieszny
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nRecent advances in biomolecular archaeology have transformed our understanding of prehistoric subsistence strategies\, yet their implications for broader questions of mobility\, environment and language dispersal remain insufficiently integrated. This presentation explores dietary practices among Corded Ware populations through a combination of stable isotope analysis\, palaeoproteomics and organic residue analysis of ceramics. \nStable isotope data provide a direct reconstruction of the human diet\, revealing a consistent reliance on animal-derived resources\, but also allow for indirect insights into the ecological context of livestock management. These patterns are further contextualised through lipid residue analysis\, which enables the identification of processed foodstuffs and the relative contribution of major dietary categories\, including ruminant and non-ruminant animal products. In parallel\, proteomic analysis of dental calculus provides species-specific evidence of animal exploitation\, directly linking human consumers to particular domesticated taxa. \nBy integrating these complementary lines of evidence\, the study reconstructs a nuanced picture of subsistence strategies that extends beyond simple distinctions between farming and pastoralism. The results are discussed in relation to emerging genetic and archaeological models of steppe populations\, particularly those associated with the Yamnaya horizon and their role in the spread of Indo-European languages. In this context\, biomolecular evidence for diet\, especially the exploitation of secondary animal products such as milk\, offers important insights into the economic foundations that may have facilitated large-scale mobility and demographic expansion. \nThe presentation highlights the potential of biomolecular approaches to bridge scales of analysis\, from individual dietary behaviour to macro-regional processes\, and to contribute to ongoing debates concerning the relationship between subsistence\, mobility and cultural transmission in prehistoric Eurasia. \n  \n \nŁukasz Pospieszny is an archaeologist at the University of Gdańsk and an Honorary Research Associate\, University of Bristol
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/mini-seminar-corded-ware-dietary-practices-with-lukasz-pospieszny/
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