PXD021498

PXD021498 is an original dataset announced via ProteomeXchange.

Title	Evidence for long-distance trade in exotic foods and spices from South Asia to the Near East in the 2nd millennium BCE
Description	Although the key role of long-distance trade in the transformation of cuisines worldwide has been well-documented since at least the Roman era, the prehistory of the Eurasian food trade is less visible. In order to shed light on the transformation of Eastern Mediterranean cuisines during the Bronze and Early Iron Age, we analyzed microremains and proteins preserved in the dental calculus of individuals who lived during the 2nd millennium BCE in the Southern Levant. Our results provide clear evidence for the consumption of expected staple foods, such as cereals (Triticeae), sesame (Sesamum) and dates (Phoenix). We additionally report evidence for the consumption of soybean (Glycine), probable banana (Musa), and turmeric (Curcuma), which pushes back the earliest known availability of these foods in the Mediterranean by centuries (turmeric) or even millennia (soybean). We find that, from the early 2nd millennium onwards, at least some people in the Eastern Mediterranean had access to food from distant locations, including South Asia, and such trade goods likely reached the Eastern Mediterranean in the form of oils, dried fruits, and spices. These novel insights force us to rethink the complexity and intensity of Indo-Mediterranean trade during the Bronze Age and also the degree of globalization in early Eastern Mediterranean cuisine.
HostingRepository	PRIDE
AnnounceDate	2020-12-22
AnnouncementXML	Submission_2020-12-22_15:45:32.xml
DigitalObjectIdentifier	https://dx.doi.org/10.6019/PXD021498
ReviewLevel	Peer-reviewed dataset
DatasetOrigin	Original dataset
RepositorySupport	Supported dataset by repository
PrimarySubmitter	Ashley Scott
SpeciesList	scientific name: Homo sapiens (Human); NCBI TaxID: 9606;
ModificationList	No PTMs are included in the dataset
Instrument	Q Exactive

Revision	Datetime	Status	ChangeLog Entry
0	2020-09-15 22:20:34	ID requested
⏵ 1	2020-12-22 15:45:32	announced

Dataset with its publication pending

submitter keyword: LC-MS, dental calculus

Christina Warinner
contact affiliation	Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Department of Archaeogenetics
contact email	warinner@shh.mpg.de
lab head
Ashley Scott
contact affiliation	Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
contact email	Scott@shh.mpg.de
dataset submitter

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PRIDE project URI

• PRIDE
  1. PXD021498
     1. Label: PRIDE project
     2. Name: Evidence for long-distance trade in exotic foods and spices from South Asia to the Near East in the 2nd millennium BCE