Multi-isotope Evidence for Animal Husbandry, Transhumance, and Human Diet at San Giuliano, Italy

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Etruscan Centralization to Medieval Marginalization: Shifts in Settlement and Mortuary Traditions at San Giuliano, Italy" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project (SGARP) offers an excellent opportunity to investigate potential diachronic changes in human-animal interactions from the Etruscan to Late Medieval periods in central Italy. Here, we report on faunal and human multi-isotope data (δ13C, δ15N, and 87Sr/86Sr) from the medieval acropolis on the San Giuliano plateau, as well as the development of a local strontium "isoscape" using modern plants from the San Giuliano plateau region. Combining these data with existing predictive baseline isotope models for Italy, we explore issues of animal transhumance, human land use, and subsistence patterns at San Giuliano. These results will be discussed in context with other archaeological evidence from the SGARP to better understand the human-animal experience at this site.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Etruscan Centralization to Medieval Marginalization: Shifts in Settlement and Mortuary Traditions at San Giuliano, Italy

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Abstract Id(s): 32973