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A multidisciplinary approach for investigating dietary and medicinal habits of the Medieval population of Santa Severa (7th-15th centuries, Rome, Italy)

Gismondi, Angelo ; Baldoni, Marica ; Gnes, Micaela ; Scorrano, Gabriele ; D'Agostino, Alessia ; Di Marco, Gabriele ; Calabria, Giulietta ; Petrucci, Michela ; Müldner, Gundula ; Von Tersch, Matthew ; Nardi, Alessandra ; Enei, Flavio ; Canini, Antonella ; Rickards, Olga ; Alexander, Michelle ; Martínez-Labarga, Cristina Caramelli, David

PloS one, 2020-01, Vol.15 (1), p.e0227433-e0227433 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: Public Library of Science

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A multidisciplinary approach for investigating dietary and medicinal habits of the Medieval population of Santa Severa (7th-15th centuries, Rome, Italy)
Autor: Gismondi, Angelo ; Baldoni, Marica ; Gnes, Micaela ; Scorrano, Gabriele ; D'Agostino, Alessia ; Di Marco, Gabriele ; Calabria, Giulietta ; Petrucci, Michela ; Müldner, Gundula ; Von Tersch, Matthew ; Nardi, Alessandra ; Enei, Flavio ; Canini, Antonella ; Rickards, Olga ; Alexander, Michelle ; Martínez-Labarga, Cristina
Caramelli, David
Assuntos: Animal protein ; Animals ; Archaeology ; Artemisinin ; Beef cattle ; Biology ; Biology and Life Sciences ; Bone and Bones - chemistry ; Bone and Bones - metabolism ; Cemeteries ; Cereals ; Chromatography ; Consumption ; Dairy products ; Dental calculi ; Dental calculus ; Deoxyribonucleic acid ; Diet ; Diet - history ; DNA ; DNA, Ancient - analysis ; Earth Sciences ; Fatty acids ; Food consumption ; Food sources ; Gas chromatography ; Herbal medicine ; History, Medieval ; Human remains ; Humans ; Investigations ; Laboratories ; Legumes ; Light microscopy ; Malaria ; Marine fish ; Mass spectrometry ; Mass spectroscopy ; Medicinal plants ; Medicine and Health Sciences ; Medicine, Botanic ; Medicine, Herbal ; Medieval period ; Metabolites ; Microscopy ; Milk ; Omega 3 fatty acids ; Optical microscopy ; People and places ; Physical Sciences ; Plant metabolites ; Plant tissues ; Polyunsaturated fatty acids ; Population ; Poultry ; Proteins ; Research and Analysis Methods ; Rome ; Secondary metabolites ; Seeds ; Sheep ; Spectroscopy ; Stable isotopes ; Terrestrial environments ; Unsaturated fatty acids ; Vector-borne diseases ; Wine
É parte de: PloS one, 2020-01, Vol.15 (1), p.e0227433-e0227433
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Current address: Section for Evolutionary Genomics, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Descrição: A multidisciplinary approach, combining stable isotope analysis from bone proteins and investigations on dental calculus using DNA analysis, light microscopy, and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry, was applied to reconstruct dietary and medicinal habits of the individuals recovered in the cemetery of the Castle of Santa Severa (7th-15th centuries CE; Rome, Italy). Stable isotope analysis was performed on 120 humans, 41 faunal specimens and 8 charred seeds. Dental calculus analyses were carried out on 94 samples. Overall, isotope data indicated an omnivorous diet based on C3-terrestrial protein, although some individuals possessed carbon values indicative of C4 plant consumption. In terms of animal protein, the diet was probably based on cattle, sheep, pig and chicken products, as witnessed by the archaeozoological findings. Evidence from calculus suggested the consumption of C3 cereals, Fabaceae, Fagaceae, milk and dairy products. Secondary metabolites of herbs and wine were also detected. The detection of marine fish ancient DNA, as well as of ω3 fatty acids in calculus, hypothesized the consumption of marine foodstuffs for this coastal population, despite the lack of a clear marine isotopic signal and the presence of polyunsaturated fatty acids in plant tissues. Moreover, the knowledge of ethnopharmacological tradition and the application of medicinal plants (e.g. Punica granatum L., Ephedra sp. L.) were also identified. The detection of artemisinin, known to have antimalarial properties, led to hypothesize the presence of malaria in the area. Altogether, the combined application of microscopy and biomolecular techniques provided an innovative reconstruction of Medieval lifeways in Central Italy.
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