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Stable Isotopic Evidence for Human and Animal Diets From the Late Neolithic to the Ming Dynasty in the Middle-Lower Reaches of the Hulu River Valley, NW China

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The study of human and animal paleodiets, representing the unique subsistence strategies and human-environment interactions adopted over evolutionary time, has attracted intensive research attention.
Jiajia Dong, Shan Wang, Guoke Chen, Wenyu Wei, Linyao Du, Yongxiang Xu, Minmin Ma, Guanghui Dong   +7 more
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Paleodietary reconstruction of endemic rodents from the precolumbian Dominican Republic: Discriminating wild feeding behavior from diets linked to human niche construction activities

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 32, Issue 5, Page 976-995, September/October 2022., 2022
Abstract In the Greater Antilles, certain animal taxa that have long been theorized to have been managed by indigenous peoples prior to AD1492, the main candidates being a group of endemic caviomorph rodents known as hutias (Capromyinae). This isotopic study investigates the paleodiets of several species of endemic rodents from three late precolonial ...
Gene T. Shev, Jason E. Laffoon
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond faith: Biomolecular evidence for changing urban economies in multi‐faith medieval Portugal

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 176, Issue 2, Page 208-222, October 2021., 2021
Difference in marine protein in the diet of early and late medieval population. Abstract Objectives During the Middle Ages, Portugal witnessed unprecedented socioeconomic and religious changes under transitioning religious political rule. The implications of changing ruling powers for urban food systems and individual diets in medieval Portugal is ...
Alice Toso, Simona Schifano, Charlotte Oxborough, Krista McGrath, Luke Spindler, Anabela Castro, Lucy Evangelista, Vanessa Filipe, Maria José Gonçalves, Antonio Marques, Inês Mendes da Silva, Raquel Santos, Maria João Valente, Iona McCleery, Michelle Alexander   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biological histories of an elite: Skeletons from the Royal Chapel of Lugo Cathedral (NW Spain)

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 31, Issue 5, Page 941-956, September/October 2021., 2021
Abstract This study aims to reconstruct the biological histories of the people buried at the Royal Chapel of Lugo Cathedral, an important religious center of NW Spain, by using anthropological, geochemical, and historical perspectives. We conducted a macroscopic and radiographic study on 955 skeletal elements, a multi‐isotope (δ13Ccol, δ15N, δ34Scol ...
Olalla López‐Costas, Gundula Müldner, Kerstin Lidén   +2 more
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Structure of alimentation of the bearers of the Odino culture from the Baraba forrest-steppe area (odonologic data)

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2016
The article is dedicated to reconstruction of paleodiet in three groups of the Odino archaeological culture from the burial sites of Sopka-2/4A, Tartas-1 and Preobrazhenka-6.
Zubova A.V., Marchenko Zh.V., Grishin A.E.   +2 more
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Diversity of Lifeways in Early Antillean Societies: A Multi-Isotope Approach. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives In this paper, we sought to examine whether people with different lifeways, as evidenced by their mobility patterns and dietary practices, inhabited the Antilles in early precolonial time. We also aimed to explore spatiotemporal trends.
Chinique de Armas Y, Buhay WM, González Herrera UM, Hernández Godoy ST, Garcell Domínguez JF, Viera Sanfiel LM, Caraballo Yera JA, Roksandic M, Laffoon J.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Contribution to Mediterranean medieval dietary studies: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data of marine and catadromous fish from Provence (9th–14th CE)

Data in Brief, 2022
Whilst marine resources are one of the pillars of the Mediterranean diet, their mode of acquisition and subsequent consumption by medieval populations in southern France are still not well known.
Leïa Mion, Tatiana André, Anne Mailloux, Myriam Sternberg, Arturo Morales Muniz, Eufrasia Rosello-Izquierdo, Laura Llorente Rodríguez, Estelle Herrscher   +7 more
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Ancient Beringian paleodiets revealed through multiproxy stable isotope analyses [PDF]

Science Advances, 2020
Stable isotope analyses show that Ancient Beringian diets were seasonally structured and included substantial summer salmon.
Carrin M. Halffman, Ben A. Potter, Holly J. McKinney, Takumi Tsutaya, Bruce P. Finney, Brian M. Kemp, Eric J. Bartelink, Matthew J. Wooller, Michael Buckley, Casey T. Clark, Jessica J. Johnson, Brittany L. Bingham, François B. Lanoë, Robert A. Sattler, Joshua D. Reuther   +14 more
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Population of the Eastern Aral Sea region of the 1st millennium according to data from archaeoparasitology (experience of a pilot study) [PDF]

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии
The article presents the results of archaeoparasitology analysis of soil samples obtained during cleaning of sacrums of individuals of the Dzhetyasar archaeological culture (2nd–8th centuries AD) from burial grounds of the South-Eastern Aral Sea region ...
Slepchenko S.M., Filimonova M.O., Ivanov S.N., Khrustalev A.V., Mednikova M.B.   +4 more
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Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Diet through Bone Elemental Analysis Using LIBS (Qubbet el Hawa Cemetery). [PDF]

Biomed Res Int, 2015
One of the most important advantages of LIBS that make it suitable for the analysis of archeological materials is that it is a quasi‐nondestructive technique. Archeological mandibles excavated from Qubbet el Hawa Cemetery, Aswan, were subjected to elemental analysis in order to reconstruct the dietary patterns of the middle class of the Aswan ...
Al-Khafif GD, El-Banna R.
europepmc   +2 more sources