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NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
卷 4, 期 5, 页码 489-495出版社
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0808-y
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- University of Otago
- Royal Society of New Zealand Skinner Fund
- Otago Centre for Electron Microscopy Student Research Award
- Max Planck Society
- Australian Research Council [DP 0556874]
- National Geographic Society [SRC 8038-06]
- Pacific Biological Foundation
- Department of Archaeology and Natural History at the ANU
- School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the ANU
- Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation Foundation
- Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund [UOO0407, 09-UOO-106]
Remote Oceania, which largely consists of islands covered in tropical forests, was the last region on earth to be successfully colonized by humans, beginning 3,000 years ago. We examined human dental calculus from burials in an ancient Lapita culture cemetery to gain insight into the early settlement of this previously untouched tropical environment, specifically on the island of Efate in Vanuatu. Dental calculus is an ideal material to analyse questions of human and plant interactions due to the ingestion of plant-derived microparticles that become incorporated into the calculus as it forms throughout a person's life. Most of the microparticles identified here are from tree and shrub resources, including a similar to 2,900 calibrated (cal) bp example of banana in Remote Oceania, providing direct evidence for the importance of forests and arboriculture during the settlement of Remote Oceania. Tropical tree and shrub microparticles uncovered from ancient human tooth plaque in Vanuatu show that early colonists were horticulturalists and foragers who adapted to and modified their environments depending on their local ecology and subsistence needs.
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