Palaeodiet (Other Keyword)

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Feeding ecology of the Okhotsk hunter-gather-fishers estimated by stable isotope analysis (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Takumi Tsutaya. Taichi Hattori. Tomonari Takahashi. Hirofumi Kato. Andrzej Weber.

Hamanaka-2 site in the Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan provides a good faunal assemblage made by Epi-Jomon and Okhotsk hunter-gatherer-fishers. In this study, we reconstruct feeding ecology of the Okhotsk hunter-gatherer-fishers by applying the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis to faunal and human remains from the Hamanaka-2 site. As a result of the analysis, Okhotsk humans were at the highest trophic level among the mammals, domesticated dogs indicated the similar but slightly lower...


Isotopic Analysis for Palaeodiet and Geolocation (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tamsin O'Connell.

Isotopic analysis as a method of assessing diet or geographical origin is now ubiquitous in archaeology, to the point where seemingly no project is complete without it. The relative ease of sample preparation and increasing prevalence of isotope mass specs has contributed to its rapid growth. Yet despite its ease of execution, it is not a cut-and-dried technique, and data interpretation can be complex. The greater use by specialists and non-specialists has resulted in studies that range from...


Stable isotope evidence for precontact Amerindian diet in Newfoundland, Canada (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison Harris. Ana T. Duggan. Stephanie Marciniak. Hendrik Poinar. Vaughan Grimes.

For a millennium, the island of Newfoundland was home to two cultures: the Palaeoeskimo, and the Amerindians who later became known historically as the Beothuk. Evidence from site distribution patterns suggests that each culture negotiated the shared space by utilizing different resources. However, after 1500 years BP, the cultural dynamics of the island began to shift as a period of climate warming altered the resources that were available on the outer coast. While the Palaeoeskimo may have...