Stressful times for women- Increased physiological stress in Neolithic females detected in tooth cementum
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2020
Аутори
Penezić, KristinaPorčić, Marko
Urban, Petra Kathrin
Wittwer-Backofen, Ursula
Stefanović, Sofija
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We used the tooth cementum annulation method (TCA) to investigate physiological stress before and during the Neolithic demographic transition in Europe. Episodes of physiological stress are reflected as "stress layers" in the tooth cementum at an almost annual resolution. We used the TCA method to detect and count the number of the stress events for a sample of 21 Mesolithic and 25 Neolithic individuals from the Central Balkans from the period between 9500 and 5400 years BC. In accord with the theory of the Neolithic demographic transition, we hypothesize that the Neolithic individuals will have more stress than the Mesolithic individuals. Our results suggest that the Neolithic females had significantly more stress layers in the tooth cementum per year of life than the Mesolithic females. The difference between Mesolithic and Neolithic males was not statistically significant. We conclude that Neolithic women had more physiological stress episodes than Mesolithic women. The differential... pattern between sexes, combined with the fact that pregnancies are one of the major causes of stress layer formation in tooth cementum, might indicate that the observed differences are mostly due to increased fertility in the Neolithic.
Кључне речи:
Tooth cementum / Physiological stress / Paleodemography / Mesolithic-Neolithic transitionИзвор:
Journal of Archaeological Science, 2020, 122Издавач:
- Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, London
Финансирање / пројекти:
- Births, mothers and babies: prehistoric fertility in the Balkans between 10000-5000 BC (EU-H2020-640557)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2020.105217
ISSN: 0305-4403
WoS: 000571506000002
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85090055059
Институција/група
Arheologija / ArchaeologyTY - JOUR AU - Penezić, Kristina AU - Porčić, Marko AU - Urban, Petra Kathrin AU - Wittwer-Backofen, Ursula AU - Stefanović, Sofija PY - 2020 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3172 AB - We used the tooth cementum annulation method (TCA) to investigate physiological stress before and during the Neolithic demographic transition in Europe. Episodes of physiological stress are reflected as "stress layers" in the tooth cementum at an almost annual resolution. We used the TCA method to detect and count the number of the stress events for a sample of 21 Mesolithic and 25 Neolithic individuals from the Central Balkans from the period between 9500 and 5400 years BC. In accord with the theory of the Neolithic demographic transition, we hypothesize that the Neolithic individuals will have more stress than the Mesolithic individuals. Our results suggest that the Neolithic females had significantly more stress layers in the tooth cementum per year of life than the Mesolithic females. The difference between Mesolithic and Neolithic males was not statistically significant. We conclude that Neolithic women had more physiological stress episodes than Mesolithic women. The differential pattern between sexes, combined with the fact that pregnancies are one of the major causes of stress layer formation in tooth cementum, might indicate that the observed differences are mostly due to increased fertility in the Neolithic. PB - Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, London T2 - Journal of Archaeological Science T1 - Stressful times for women- Increased physiological stress in Neolithic females detected in tooth cementum VL - 122 DO - 10.1016/j.jas.2020.105217 ER -
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Penezić, K., Porčić, M., Urban, P. K., Wittwer-Backofen, U.,& Stefanović, S.. (2020). Stressful times for women- Increased physiological stress in Neolithic females detected in tooth cementum. in Journal of Archaeological Science Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, London., 122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105217
Penezić K, Porčić M, Urban PK, Wittwer-Backofen U, Stefanović S. Stressful times for women- Increased physiological stress in Neolithic females detected in tooth cementum. in Journal of Archaeological Science. 2020;122. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2020.105217 .
Penezić, Kristina, Porčić, Marko, Urban, Petra Kathrin, Wittwer-Backofen, Ursula, Stefanović, Sofija, "Stressful times for women- Increased physiological stress in Neolithic females detected in tooth cementum" in Journal of Archaeological Science, 122 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105217 . .