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The diet and subsistence system of Yuan-Shan People in Taiwan (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cheng-Yi Lee. Maa-Ling Chen. Peter Ditchfield. Mark Pollard. Ching-Hua Lo.

Carbon and nitrogen isotope compositions of human bone collagen (n=5) were analyzed to discover the paleodiet of Neolithic people of Yuan-Shan (YS) Culture, in northern Taiwan. A local isotope baseline was constructed by 71 faunal samples. Four inferences are drawn: (1) pigs share similar isotope compositions with deer, which indicates they were herbivores rather than omnivores. It had a great possibility that the pigs were raised by human and we suggest that C3 plant was used as pig’s feed...