龋齿是新石器时代中国山麓农业活动的标志

IF 0.9 2区历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI:10.1016/j.ara.2025.100645

Doudou Cao , Xiangyu Liu , Wanfa Gu , Hong Zhu , Ruojing Zhang , Zhiqing Zhou , Qingli Wei , Jiaxing Zou , Yujie Qiu , Jian Chen , Lanpo Ding , Emma Pomeroy , Haibing Yuan

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摘要

长期以来，人们一直认为龋齿与农业转型期间对淀粉类作物的依赖增加有关，但最近的证据显示，饮食、环境和口腔健康之间存在更复杂的关系。新石器时代的中国，在肥沃的山麓和河谷中有着多样化的农业实践，为研究不同的生存策略如何影响牙齿健康提供了有价值的背景。本研究探讨了新石器时代中晚期（~ 5500-3700 BP）中国山麓地区不同生活方式对牙齿健康的影响。对东北牛河梁狩猎采集者（478颗牙，30人）、中原清台谷子农人（1769颗牙，83人）和西南高山稻农（638颗牙，36人）共149名成人的2885颗牙齿进行了研究。根据性别、年龄、牙齿位置和严重程度记录龋齿，并对生前牙齿脱落进行矫正。狩猎采集者患病率最低（26.7%个体，3.4%牙齿），其次是稻农（36.1%个体，4.9%牙齿），居住密度更高的谷农患病率最高（75.9%个体，14%牙齿）。龋齿率随年龄增长而增加，但不同地点的性别差异并不显著。这一梯度表明集约化谷子种植与龋齿增加之间存在显著关联，而水稻种植和狩猎采集混合策略似乎对牙齿健康的危害较小。通过将这些结果置于新石器时代中国山麓地区不同生存策略的背景下，本研究强调了当地环境和文化因素在塑造健康结果中的重要性。

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Dental caries as indicators of agricultural practices in the foothills of Neolithic China

Dental caries has long been associated with increased reliance on starchy crops during the agricultural transition, yet recent evidence reveals a more intricate relationship between diet, environment, and oral health. Neolithic China, with its diverse agricultural practices across fertile foothills and river valleys, offers valuable contexts to examine how varying subsistence strategies shaped dental health. This study explores the impact of different lifestyles on dental health in China's foothill regions during the middle to late Neolithic (∼5500–3700 BP). A total of 2885 teeth of 149 adults from three sites were examined: hunter-gatherers from Niuheliang in northeastern China (478 teeth, 30 individuals), millet agriculturalists from Qingtai in the Central Plain (1769 teeth, 83 individuals), and rice farmers from Gaoshan in the southwestern region (638 teeth, 36 individuals). Caries was recorded by sex, age, tooth location and severity, with corrections made for antemortem tooth loss. Hunter-gatherers exhibit the lowest prevalence (26.7 % of individuals, 3.4 % of teeth), followed by rice farmers (36.1 % of individuals, 4.9 % of teeth), with more densely settled millet farmers showing the highest prevalence (75.9 % of individuals, 14 % of teeth). Caries rates increase with age, but sex differences are not significant across sites. This gradient suggests a significant association between intensive millet farming and increased caries, while rice farming and mixed hunter-gatherer strategies appear less detrimental to dental health. By situating these results within the context of diverse subsistence strategies in Neolithic China's foothills, this study underscores the importance of localised environmental and cultural factors in shaping health outcomes.

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Archaeological Research in Asia ARCHAEOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Archaeological Research in Asia presents high quality scholarly research conducted in between the Bosporus and the Pacific on a broad range of archaeological subjects of importance to audiences across Asia and around the world. The journal covers the traditional components of archaeology: placing events and patterns in time and space; analysis of past lifeways; and explanations for cultural processes and change. To this end, the publication will highlight theoretical and methodological advances in studying the past, present new data, and detail patterns that reshape our understanding of it. Archaeological Research in Asia publishes work on the full temporal range of archaeological inquiry from the earliest human presence in Asia with a special emphasis on time periods under-represented in other venues. Journal contributions are of three kinds: articles, case reports and short communications. Full length articles should present synthetic treatments, novel analyses, or theoretical approaches to unresolved issues. Case reports present basic data on subjects that are of broad interest because they represent key sites, sequences, and subjects that figure prominently, or should figure prominently, in how scholars both inside and outside Asia understand the archaeology of cultural and biological change through time. Short communications present new findings (e.g., radiocarbon dates) that are important to the extent that they reaffirm or change the way scholars in Asia and around the world think about Asian cultural or biological history.