Food for Thought: Re-Assessing Mesolithic Diets in the Iron Gates

摘要: Stable isotope ratios of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur in human bone collagen are used routinely to aid the reconstruction ancient diets. Isotopic analysis remains from sites Iron Gates section Lower Danube Valley has led conflicting interpretations Mesolithic diets this key region southeast Europe. One view (Bonsall et al. 1997, 2004) is that were based mainly on riverine resources throughout Mesolithic. A competing hypothesis (Nehlich 2010) argues more varied with at least one Early site showing an emphasis terrestrial resources, only becoming dominant Later The present article revisits issue, discussing stable data relation archaeozoological radiocarbon evidence.