A new perspectives on breastfeeding practice reconstruction in bioarchaeology – an oxygen isotopes study in an animal model
Research using stable isotopes for the reconstruction of breastfeeding strategies are based on assumptions that have not yet been verified by experimental studies. Interpreting the results of isotope analysis is associated with a certain degree of uncertainty, mainly due to the lack of information o...
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| author | Aleksandra Lisowska-Gaczorek Beata Cienkosz-Stepańczak Mirosław Furmanek Krzysztof Szostek |
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| description | Research using stable isotopes for the reconstruction of breastfeeding strategies are based on assumptions that have not yet been verified by experimental studies. Interpreting the results of isotope analysis is associated with a certain degree of uncertainty, mainly due to the lack of information on how isotopes are distributed in mothers, breast-fed and weaned offspring. Culinary practices also can affect the interpretation of isotope results.
Considering positive correlation between oxygen isotope composition of drinking water and bone phosphates, experimental studies were carried out using rats as an animal model. The experiment showed that apatites of breast-fed offspring were enriched 1.6‰ in comparison to the values observed in their mothers. In the boiled water model, the difference was 1.8‰. On the basis of the animal model, it was estimated that the difference in 18O between mother and child in the human species may amount to approximately 2.7‰, and long-term intake of boiled liquid food and beverages will not compensate the difference.
The experiment allowed observation of the effect of changes in isotope ratios to a change in trophic levels during breastfeeding and weaning, as well as the additional effect associated with the consumption of isotope enriched water during thermal treatment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3e924a47f2564a55987313ea82744bb32023-10-24T08:23:39ZengLodz University PressAnthropological Review1898-67732083-45942023-08-0186312915910.18778/1898-6773.86.3.0818444A new perspectives on breastfeeding practice reconstruction in bioarchaeology – an oxygen isotopes study in an animal modelAleksandra Lisowska-Gaczorek0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3613-353XBeata Cienkosz-Stepańczak1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5422-6257Mirosław Furmanek2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3558-3440Krzysztof Szostek3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7815-928XInstitute of Biological Sciences, Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Poland Institute of Archaeology, University of Wroclaw, Poland Institute of Biological Sciences, Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland Research using stable isotopes for the reconstruction of breastfeeding strategies are based on assumptions that have not yet been verified by experimental studies. Interpreting the results of isotope analysis is associated with a certain degree of uncertainty, mainly due to the lack of information on how isotopes are distributed in mothers, breast-fed and weaned offspring. Culinary practices also can affect the interpretation of isotope results. Considering positive correlation between oxygen isotope composition of drinking water and bone phosphates, experimental studies were carried out using rats as an animal model. The experiment showed that apatites of breast-fed offspring were enriched 1.6‰ in comparison to the values observed in their mothers. In the boiled water model, the difference was 1.8‰. On the basis of the animal model, it was estimated that the difference in 18O between mother and child in the human species may amount to approximately 2.7‰, and long-term intake of boiled liquid food and beverages will not compensate the difference. The experiment allowed observation of the effect of changes in isotope ratios to a change in trophic levels during breastfeeding and weaning, as well as the additional effect associated with the consumption of isotope enriched water during thermal treatment.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/ar/article/view/18642oxygen isotopesbreastfeedingweaning of ancient populationanimal modelbioarchaeology |
| spellingShingle | Aleksandra Lisowska-Gaczorek Beata Cienkosz-Stepańczak Mirosław Furmanek Krzysztof Szostek A new perspectives on breastfeeding practice reconstruction in bioarchaeology – an oxygen isotopes study in an animal model Anthropological Review oxygen isotopes breastfeeding weaning of ancient population animal model bioarchaeology |
| title | A new perspectives on breastfeeding practice reconstruction in bioarchaeology – an oxygen isotopes study in an animal model |
| title_full | A new perspectives on breastfeeding practice reconstruction in bioarchaeology – an oxygen isotopes study in an animal model |
| title_fullStr | A new perspectives on breastfeeding practice reconstruction in bioarchaeology – an oxygen isotopes study in an animal model |
| title_full_unstemmed | A new perspectives on breastfeeding practice reconstruction in bioarchaeology – an oxygen isotopes study in an animal model |
| title_short | A new perspectives on breastfeeding practice reconstruction in bioarchaeology – an oxygen isotopes study in an animal model |
| title_sort | new perspectives on breastfeeding practice reconstruction in bioarchaeology an oxygen isotopes study in an animal model |
| topic | oxygen isotopes breastfeeding weaning of ancient population animal model bioarchaeology |
| url | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/ar/article/view/18642 |
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