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Climate Stability and Societal Decline on the Margins of the Byzantine Empire in the Negev Desert (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Petra Vaiglova. Gideon Hartman. Guy Bar-Oz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the absence of a high-resolution climate archive in Negev Desert, southern Israel, it has been challenging to understand why the Byzantine Empire built large towns in this arid region in the fourth century CE—and why it abandoned them three centuries later. In this study, we use dietary and mobility patterns of animals recovered from three Byzantine Negev...


Foraging for Answers: A Preliminary Analysis of Contemporary Central African Forest Forager Diets via Stable Isotopic Analysis (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolette Edwards. Karen Lupo. Dave Schmitt. Michael Richards.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stable isotopic analysis is commonly used to assess dietary patterns among prehistoric hunter-gatherers. However, although the use of this method is prolific in archaeological contexts, its application in contemporary settings is minimal. In addition, an approach that can provide more accurate assessment of what individuals actually consume, such as stable...


The Nitrogen Challenge at Çatalhöyük (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Petra Vaiglova. Amy Bogaard.

This is an abstract from the "Challenges and Future Directions in Plant Stable Isotope Analysis in Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopic values of archaeobotanical remains from the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük have presented us with a series of challenges for interpreting ancient crop management systems in a complex environment. An exceptionally wide range of δ15N values (0 to 18‰) obtained...