Great Hungarian Plain Diet and Mobility through the Neolithic, Copper Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age

Summary

The Great Hungarian Plain (GHP), which occupies part of Hungary and five surrounding countries, was a gateway to population influx and cultural admixture along the Eastern Steppe corridor. The GHP was a hub of cultural change, including a shift in settlement patterns, during the transition between the Neolithic and Copper Age and again during the Bronze and Iron Ages. This research uses stable isotope analyses to examine transformations in the GHP area and how these changes evolved over the course of a few thousand years. Isotopic analysis will provide evidence for subsistence strategies (carbon and nitrogen), answering questions about general diet and changes to diet through time. This approach will also provide data on the possible regions of cultural influence due to migration through the use of strontium isotopes. The isotopic data will help elucidate potential cultural dispersal patterns and the rate at which this occurred. Furthermore, the isotopic data will also help identify potential cultural evolution patterns and the rate at which this would have occurred.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

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Abstract Id(s): 12137