The Iceman's Last Meal Consisted of Fat, Wild Meat, and Cereals. Maixner, F., Turaev, D., Cazenave-Gassiot, A., Janko, M., Krause-Kyora, B., Hoopmann, M. R, Kusebauch, U., Sartain, M., Guerriero, G., O'Sullivan, N., Teasdale, M., Cipollini, G., Paladin, A., Mattiangeli, V., Samadelli, M., Tecchiati, U., Putzer, A., Palazoglu, M., Meissen, J., Lösch, S., Rausch, P., Baines, J. F, Kim, B. J., An, H., Gostner, P., Egarter-Vigl, E., Malfertheiner, P., Keller, A., Stark, R. W, Wenk, M., Bishop, D., Bradley, D. G, Fiehn, O., Engstrand, L., Moritz, R. L, Doble, P., Franke, A., Nebel, A., Oeggl, K., Rattei, T., Grimm, R., & Zink, A. Current biology : CB, June, 2018.
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The history of humankind is marked by the constant adoption of new dietary habits affecting human physiology, metabolism, and even the development of nutrition-related disorders. Despite clear archaeological evidence for the shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture in Neolithic Europe [1], very little information exists on the daily dietary habits of our ancestors. By undertaking a complementary -omics approach combined with microscopy, we analyzed the stomach content of the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old European glacier mummy [2, 3]. He seems to have had a remarkably high proportion of fat in his diet, supplemented with fresh or dried wild meat, cereals, and traces of toxic bracken. Our multipronged approach provides unprecedented analytical depth, deciphering the nutritional habit, meal composition, and food-processing methods of this Copper Age individual.
@Article{Maixner2018,
  author       = {Maixner, Frank and Turaev, Dmitrij and Cazenave-Gassiot, Amaury and Janko, Marek and Krause-Kyora, Ben and Hoopmann, Michael R and Kusebauch, Ulrike and Sartain, Mark and Guerriero, Gea and O'Sullivan, Niall and Teasdale, Matthew and Cipollini, Giovanna and Paladin, Alice and Mattiangeli, Valeria and Samadelli, Marco and Tecchiati, Umberto and Putzer, Andreas and Palazoglu, Mine and Meissen, John and Lösch, Sandra and Rausch, Philipp and Baines, John F and Kim, Bum Jin and An, Hyun-Joo and Gostner, Paul and Egarter-Vigl, Eduard and Malfertheiner, Peter and Keller, Andreas and Stark, Robert W and Wenk, Markus and Bishop, David and Bradley, Daniel G and Fiehn, Oliver and Engstrand, Lars and Moritz, Robert L and Doble, Philip and Franke, Andre and Nebel, Almut and Oeggl, Klaus and Rattei, Thomas and Grimm, Rudolf and Zink, Albert},
  title        = {The Iceman's Last Meal Consisted of Fat, Wild Meat, and Cereals.},
  journal      = {Current biology : CB},
  year         = {2018},
  month        = jun,
  issn         = {1879-0445},
  abstract     = {The history of humankind is marked by the constant adoption of new dietary habits affecting human physiology, metabolism, and even the development of nutrition-related disorders. Despite clear archaeological evidence for the shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture in Neolithic Europe [1], very little information exists on the daily dietary habits of our ancestors. By undertaking a complementary -omics approach combined with microscopy, we analyzed the stomach content of the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old European glacier mummy [2, 3]. He seems to have had a remarkably high proportion of fat in his diet, supplemented with fresh or dried wild meat, cereals, and traces of toxic bracken. Our multipronged approach provides unprecedented analytical depth, deciphering the nutritional habit, meal composition, and food-processing methods of this Copper Age individual.},
  country      = {England},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.067},
  issn-linking = {0960-9822},
  keywords     = {European Copper Age mummy; Iceman; ancient DNA; diet; last meal; lipidomics; microscopy; multi-omics study; proteomics; stomach content},
  nlm-id       = {9107782},
  owner        = {NLM},
  pii          = {S0960-9822(18)30703-6},
  pmid         = {30017480},
  pubmodel     = {Print-Electronic},
  pubstatus    = {aheadofprint},
  revised      = {2018-07-18},
}

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