Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 447-459Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/oa.2435
Keywords
carbon; Copper Age; nitrogen; palaeodiet; stable isotopes; Valencina de la Concepcion-Castilleja de Guzman
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- Direccion General de Bienes Culturales de la Consejeria de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucia
- Ayuntamiento de Valencina de la Concepcion (Sevilla)
- Generalitat de Catalunya [SGR2009-566]
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This palaeodietary study presents carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data from human and faunal skeletal remains from the Copper Age settlement of Valencina de la Concepcion-Castilleja de Guzman, located in Seville, Spain. Montelirio, the only Valencina-Castilleja human group from which we have obtained reliable palaeodietary results, had a diet based on C-3 terrestrial resources, including both plants and animals. The protein component of the diet consisted mainly of meat, milk and dairy products from livestock as well as C-3 plant protein from cereals and pulses. This study compares data from Montelirio, the Copper Age group from Valencina-Castilleja, with the published data from other Iberian Late Neolithic-Copper Age (LN-CA) societies. This comparison reveals a homogeneous diet with some exceptions. Overall, the LN-CA diet in the Iberian Peninsula consisted mainly of animal proteins from meat, milk and dairy products from livestock as well as C-3 plant sources from the characteristic agriculture of the societies of these periods. This study also demonstrates the minor use of aquatic resources from the Neolithic to the Copper Age period in the Iberian Peninsula. Copyright (C) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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