Caprine Mobility on the Balearic Islands During the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600–850 BC): First Results Based on Strontium Isotopes (87Sr/86Sr)

Autor: Silvia Valenzuela-Lamas, Damià Ramis, Delphine Bosch, Lua Valenzuela-Suau
Přispěvatelé: Valenzuela-Suau, Lua, Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia, Ramis, Damià, Bosch, Delphine, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Géosciences Montpellier, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Valenzuela-Suau, Lua [0000-0003-0803-9201], Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia [0000-0001-9886-0372], Ramis, Damià [0000-0002-8940-1956], Bosch, Delphine [0000-0002-7903-710X]
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Bronze Age
010506 paleontology
Archeology
[SDU.STU.PE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Petrography
[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences
government.political_district
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
01 natural sciences
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
[SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry
Balearic Islands
[SDU.STU.VO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Volcanology
0601 history and archaeology
[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces
environment
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean
Atmosphere
Mobility
Balearic islands
Sheep
060102 archaeology
06 humanities and the arts
Strontium isotopes
Geochemistry
Geography
[SDE]Environmental Sciences
government
Humanities
Zdroj: Environmental Archaeology
Environmental Archaeology, Taylor & Francis, 2021, pp.1-12. ⟨10.1080/14614103.2021.1921675⟩
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
instname
Digital.CSIC: Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
ISSN: 1749-6314
1461-4103
Popis: This study presents the 87Sr/86Sr ratios from the tooth enamel of 57 sheep and goat specimens, in order to explore animal mobility in the Middle and Late Bronze Age society of the Balearic Islands (Naviform period). Seven archaeological sites from Mallorca and Menorca located in different biotopes and with different functionalities were selected. The results provide some of the first data on the geographic range of meat provisioning at each site. In addition, several present-day leaves, as well as tooth dentine and bones were analysed to assess local strontium isotopic ratios in different geological layers existing in the Balearic Islands. The results suggest that most caprines were sourced from the neighbouring areas of each site, but also suggest a correlation between strontium isotope variability and site function: domestic settlements and sites related with maritime exchanges had significantly more variability compared to fortified sites. In addition, the ritual cave of Cova del Camp del Bisbe had the highest diversity of strontium isotopic ratios, thus suggesting that caprines were brought here from a variety of different locations.
This work was part of the knowledge transfer of the I + D Project ‘Archipiélagos: Paisajes, comunidades prehistóricas insulares y estrategias de conectividad en el mediterráneo Occidental. El caso de las Islas Baleares durante la Prehistoria’ (HAR 2015-67211-P) and ‘Movilidad y conectividad de las comunidades prehistóricas en el Mediterráneo Occidental durante la prehistoria reciente: El caso de las Islas Baleares (PID2019-108692GB) of the ArqueoUIB Research Group, University of the Balearic Islands, funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. The work of Lua Valenzuela-Suau was funded by a predoctoral fellowship of the Conselleria d'Educació, Cultura i Universitats of the Government of the Balearic Islands and the European Social Fund (FPI/1693/2014). The work of Sílvia Valenzuela-Lamas was supported by the ERC-StG 716298 ZooMWest - Zooarchaeology and Mobility in the Western Mediterranean.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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