TY - JOUR
T1 - The Iceman's Last Meal Consisted of Fat, Wild Meat, and Cereals
AU - Maixner, Frank
AU - Turaev, Dmitrij
AU - Cazenave-Gassiot, Amaury
AU - Janko, Marek
AU - Krause-Kyora, Ben
AU - Hoopmann, Michael R.
AU - Kusebauch, Ulrike
AU - Sartain, Mark
AU - Guerriero, Gea
AU - O'Sullivan, Niall
AU - Teasdale, Matthew
AU - Cipollini, Giovanna
AU - Paladin, Alice
AU - Mattiangeli, Valeria
AU - Samadelli, Marco
AU - Tecchiati, Umberto
AU - Putzer, Andreas
AU - Palazoglu, Mine
AU - Meissen, John
AU - Lösch, Sandra
AU - Rausch, Philipp
AU - Baines, John F.
AU - Kim, Bum Jin
AU - An, Hyun Joo
AU - Gostner, Paul
AU - Egarter-Vigl, Eduard
AU - Malfertheiner, Peter
AU - Keller, Andreas
AU - Stark, Robert W.
AU - Wenk, Markus
AU - Bishop, David
AU - Bradley, Daniel G.
AU - Fiehn, Oliver
AU - Engstrand, Lars
AU - Moritz, Robert L.
AU - Doble, Philip
AU - Franke, Andre
AU - Nebel, Almut
AU - Oeggl, Klaus
AU - Rattei, Thomas
AU - Grimm, Rudolf
AU - Zink, Albert
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Authors
PY - 2018/7/23
Y1 - 2018/7/23
N2 - 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. Maixner et al. report the dietary reconstruction of the Iceman's last meal using a combined multi-omics approach. The stomach content analysis of the 5,300-year-old glacier mummy shows that the Iceman's diet preceding his death was a mix of carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids, well adjusted to the energetic requirements of his high-altitude trekking.
AB - 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. Maixner et al. report the dietary reconstruction of the Iceman's last meal using a combined multi-omics approach. The stomach content analysis of the 5,300-year-old glacier mummy shows that the Iceman's diet preceding his death was a mix of carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids, well adjusted to the energetic requirements of his high-altitude trekking.
KW - European Copper Age mummy
KW - Iceman
KW - ancient DNA
KW - diet
KW - last meal
KW - lipidomics
KW - microscopy
KW - multi-omics study
KW - proteomics
KW - stomach content
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.067
DO - 10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.067
M3 - Article
C2 - 30017480
AN - SCOPUS:85049090177
SN - 0960-9822
VL - 28
SP - 2348-2355.e9
JO - Current Biology
JF - Current Biology
IS - 14
ER -