Identifying Animal Management Practices Using Oxygen Isotopes in Neolithic Croatia
Author(s): Sarah McClure; Claire Ebert; Emil Podrug; Douglas J. Kennett
Year: 2018
Summary
Transhumance is a typical Mediterranean adaptation for securing adequate forage and water for domesticates by seasonally bringing animals to new pasture. However the antiquity of this adaptation is unclear. We present new oxygen isotope data from the Dalmatian coast, Croatia, to test the hypothesis that Neolithic herds were seasonally transhumant. Incremental sampling of ancient animal teeth produced data that are compared with modern isotope data of water showing altitudinal variation to assess the timing and onset of seasonal transhumance in the eastern Adriatic.
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Identifying Animal Management Practices Using Oxygen Isotopes in Neolithic Croatia. Sarah McClure, Claire Ebert, Emil Podrug, Douglas J. Kennett. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 445206)
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Keywords
General
Neolithic
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Pastoralism
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Zooarchaeology
Geographic Keywords
Europe: Eastern Europe
Spatial Coverage
min long: 19.336; min lat: 41.509 ; max long: 53.086; max lat: 70.259 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 22100