Dogs and foxes in Early-Middle Bronze Age funerary structures in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula: human control of canid diet at the sites of Can Roqueta (Barcelona) and Minferri (Lleida)
| Autor: | Silvia Albizuri, Alba Rodríguez, Natàlia Alonso, Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade, Ariadna Nieto, Antoni Palomo, Tona Majó, Andreu Moya, Joan B. López, Bibiana Agustí, Ferran Antolín |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology Zoology Biology 01 natural sciences Peninsula Bronze Age 0601 history and archaeology Canid diet Stable isotopes 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Trophic level Grave goods Herbivore geography geography.geographical_feature_category 060102 archaeology food and beverages 06 humanities and the arts δ15N Early-Middle Bronze Age Human control Anthropology 2nd millennium BC Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula |
| Zdroj: | Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname |
| ISSN: | 1866-9565 1866-9557 |
| Popis: | Findings of canid remains in graves at different sites in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula are evidence of a widespread funerary practice that proliferated between the end of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC, in particular, in the Early-Middle Bronze Age contexts. The discovery of four foxes and a large number of dogs at the sites of Can Roqueta (Barcelona) and Minferri (Lleida) respectively, stand out among the many examples of these types of grave goods. In this work, we have made an approximation of the relationship between humans and canids through the study of their diet by analysis of stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in bone collagen. These analyses were complemented by archaeozoological, anthropological and archaeobotanical studies. The comparison of human and animal diets comprised a total of 37 canids, 19 domestic ungulates and 64 humans. The results indicate that the diet of the dogs was similar to that of humans, although δ15N values of dogs in Can Roqueta and Minferri are, on the average, 1.4‰ and 1.1‰, respectively, lower than those of humans. The offset between canids and the herbivorous ungulates of each site is not up to the established minimum for a trophic level, which implies an input of C3 plants and human intervention in the feeding of dogs and some of the foxes. Some particular cases in Can Roqueta suggest a specific food preparation, richer in cereals, for larger dogs (probably devoted to carrying loads), and possibly for at least one of the foxes. Our deepest gratitude goes to Mònica Oliva and Noemí Terrats, the directors of the excavation of Can Roqueta, for giving access to unpublished data on the structures of the sectors of Torre Romeu and Can Revella and Javier López Cachero of the University of Barcelona for the recent dating of CRII-591 of Can Roqueta in the framework of projects HAR2013-48010-P and HAR2017-87695-P (MINECO, Spain). We also thank Julià Maroto of the Universitat de Girona for his collaboration in the analysis of animals of Can Roqueta in the framework of project HAR2010-22013 (MINECO, Spain). The research on Minferri was supported by projects HAR2016-78277-R (MINECO, Spain) and SGR 2017-1714 (Generalitat de Catalunya, Catalonia). AGD receives support from the project CGL2014-57209-P (MINECO, Spain). |
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