Integrating botanical, faunal and human stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values to reconstruct land use and palaeodiet at LBK Vaihingen an der Enz, Baden-Württemberg

摘要: In this paper we reconstruct the palaeodietary setting of LBK Vaihingen an der Enz, south-west Germany (later sixth millennium cal. bc) using δ13C and δ15N values human faunal bone collagen charred plant remains from cereal crops (e.g. emmer einkorn wheat) pulses (lentil pea). Our examination Neolithic dietary ‘food web’ incorporates crop within a linear-mixing model to examine estimated proportions animal protein in diet. We interpret stable isotope outcomes together with accompanying archaeobotanical zooarchaeological evidence shed light on role land use strategies diet, conclude that (manured) probably formed dominant source.