Food for Thought: Re-Assessing Mesolithic Diets in the Iron Gates
| Autor: | Ivana Radovanović, Kathleen McSweeney, Kerry L. Sayle, László Bartosiewicz, Clive Bonsall, Catriona Pickard, Thomas Higham, Andrei Soficaru, Adina Boroneanţ, Gordon Cook |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology 060102 archaeology Stable isotope ratio Ecology Human bone 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences Archaeology Paleodiets law.invention Geography Iron gates law General Earth and Planetary Sciences 0601 history and archaeology Radiocarbon dating Mesolithic Stable isotopes 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Isotope analysis |
| Zdroj: | Bonsall, C, Cook, G, Pickard, C, McSweeney, K, Sayle, K, Bartosiewicz, L, Radovanović, I, Higham, T, Soficaru, A & Boroneanţ, A 2015, ' Food for thought : Re-assessing mesolithic diets in the Iron gates ', Radiocarbon, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 689-699 . https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_rc.57.18440 |
| ISSN: | 1945-5755 0033-8222 |
| Popis: | Stable isotope ratios of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur in human bone collagen are used routinely to aid in the reconstruction of ancient diets. Isotopic analysis of human remains from sites in the Iron Gates section of the Lower Danube Valley has led to conflicting interpretations of Mesolithic diets in this key region of southeast Europe. One view (Bonsall et al. 1997, 2004) is that diets were based mainly on riverine resources throughout the Mesolithic. A competing hypothesis (Nehlich et al. 2010) argues that Mesolithic diets were more varied with at least one Early Mesolithic site showing an emphasis on terrestrial resources, and riverine resources only becoming dominant in the Later Mesolithic. The present article revisits this issue, discussing the stable isotope data in relation to archaeozoological and radiocarbon evidence. |
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