Stable Isotope Perspectives on Intra-Community Sharing

Author(s): Jelmer Eerkens

Year: 2017

Summary

Stable isotope analyses of human skeletal tissues provide estimates of paleodiet at the scale of the individual. This paper explores intra- and inter-community variation in stable nitrogen, carbon, and sulfur isotopes in human bone and teeth as insight into the prevalence of food sharing in several ancient hunter-gatherer burial populations in California. The goal, in particular, is to trace intra-community variation over time to examine how cooperative foraging and food-sharing strategies evolved over several thousand years as regional population levels gradually grew.

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Stable Isotope Perspectives on Intra-Community Sharing. Jelmer Eerkens. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 430836)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 14575