Eating in prosperity: First stable isotope evidence of diet from Palatial Knossos

摘要: Abstract This paper discusses the first stable isotope evidence of diet from Protopalatial to Neopalatial Knossos on Crete reconstruct individual long-term dietary records for people site, spanning period circa 1900 1600 BC. The aim is shed light onto lifeways and social organization respective communities, investigate people's everyday life site's politico-economic supremacy in period. Eighty-one human 12 animal individuals two Palatial cemeteries at were sampled cortical bone extracted collagen was analyzed carbon nitrogen ratios trace relative proportions (broad categories of) foodstuffs that they consumed a day-to-day basis. signatures follow broad distribution reflects range diets, where protein, including marine addition terrestrial, different levels. Faunal values site are consistent with terrestrial C 3 trophic context apparently no 4 protein input. observed variation shows clear sex-, tomb-, or cemetery-pattern; it rather follows temporal trend tune contemporary socio-economic political developments increasing prosperity investigated. Moreover, study yielded positive palaeodietary food consumption Prehistoric Crete.