期刊
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
卷 38, 期 6, 页码 1385-1393出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.02.008
关键词
Stable isotopes; Paleodiet; Canis familiaris; Urocyon littoralis; Island ecology
资金
- Smithsonian Institution, University of Oregon
- Channel Islands National Park [1443CA8120-00-007]
- Ann Huston and Kelly Minas of Channel Islands National Park
Stable carbon (delta C-13) and nitrogen (delta N-15) isotope analyses of dog (Canis familiaris), island fox (Urocyon littoralis), and human bone collagen from CA-SRI-2 (AD 130-1830) on Santa Rosa Island, California provide a proxy of diet and the relationships between humans and these animals. Carbon isotopic signatures indicate that Native Americans and their dogs at CA-SRI-2 subsisted almost exclusively on marine resources, while the island fox ate primarily terrestrial foods. Nitrogen isotopes and archaeofaunal remains indicate that humans and dogs also ate higher trophic level foods, including finfishes, marine mammals, and seabirds with smaller amounts of shellfish. The CA-SRI-2 island foxes appear to have eaten higher amounts of terrestrial foods, similar to the diets observed in modern fox populations. These data generally confirm the commensal relationship assumed to exist between domesticated dogs and people, but the carbon isotopic composition of dogs is enriched similar to 2 parts per thousand compared to humans. We hypothesize that the difference in carbon isotopes between dogs and humans may have resulted from a higher consumption of C3 plants with lower delta C-13 values by humans, or less likely from the ingestion by dogs of significant amounts of bone collagen, which is enriched by similar to 4 parts per thousand over associated muscle. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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