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DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0239861
	Diet and subsistence in Bronze Age pastoral communities from the southern Russian steppes and the North Caucasus
	Knipper, Corina; Reinhold, Sabine; Gresky, Julia; Berezina, Nataliya; Gerling, Claudia; Pichler, Sandra L.; Buzhilova, Alexandra P.; Kantorovich, Anatoly R.; Maslov, Vladimir E.; Petrenko, Vladimira G.; Lyakhov, Sergey V.; Kalmykov, Alexey A.; Belinskiy, Andrey B.; Hansen, Svend; Alt, Kurt W.
通讯作者	Knipper, C
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
出版年	2020
卷号	15 期号:10
英文摘要	The flanks of the Caucasus Mountains and the steppe landscape to their north offered highly productive grasslands for Bronze Age herders and their flocks of sheep, goat, and cattle. While the archaeological evidence points to a largely pastoral lifestyle, knowledge regarding the general composition of human diets and their variation across landscapes and during the different phases of the Bronze Age is still restricted. Human and animal skeletal remains from the burial mounds that dominate the archaeological landscape and their stable isotope compositions are major sources of dietary information. Here, we present stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data of bone collagen of 105 human and 50 animal individuals from the 5(th)millennium BC to the Sarmatian period, with a strong focus on the Bronze Age and its cultural units including Maykop, Yamnaya, Novotitorovskaya, North Caucasian, Catacomb, post-Catacomb and late Bronze Age groups. The samples comprise all inhumations with sufficient bone preservation from five burial mound sites and a flat grave cemetery as well as subsamples from three further sites. They represent the Caucasus Mountains in the south, the piedmont zone and Kuban steppe with humid steppe and forest vegetation to its north, and more arid regions in the Caspian steppe. The stable isotope compositions of the bone collagen of humans and animals varied across the study area and reflect regional diversity in environmental conditions and diets. The data agree with meat, milk, and/or dairy products from domesticated herbivores, especially from sheep and goats having contributed substantially to human diets, as it is common for a largely pastoral economy. This observation is also in correspondence with the faunal remains observed in the graves and offerings of animals in the mound shells. In addition, foodstuffs with elevated carbon and nitrogen isotope values, such as meat of unweaned animals, fish, or plants, also contributed to human diets, especially among communities living in the more arid landscapes. The regional distinction of the animal and human data with few outliers points to mobility radii that were largely concentrated within the environmental zones in which the respective sites are located. In general, dietary variation among the cultural entities as well as regarding age, sex and archaeologically indicated social status is only weakly reflected. There is, however, some indication for a dietary shift during the Early Bronze Age Maykop period.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published, Green Accepted
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000581820200056
WOS关键词	STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS ; BONE-COLLAGEN ; SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS ; HOLOCENE CLIMATE ; CASPIAN STEPPE ; TROPHIC LEVEL ; MILLENNIUM BC ; NITROGEN ; CARBON ; DISCRIMINATION
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/327083
作者单位	[Knipper, Corina] Curt Engelhorn Ctr Archaeometry, Mannheim, Germany; [Reinhold, Sabine; Hansen, Svend] German Archaeol Inst, Eurasia Dept, Berlin, Germany; [Gresky, Julia] German Archaeol Inst, Dept Nat Sci, Berlin, Germany; [Berezina, Nataliya; Buzhilova, Alexandra P.] Lomonosov Moscow State Univ, Res Inst & Museum Anthropol, Moscow, Russia; [Gerling, Claudia; Pichler, Sandra L.; Alt, Kurt W.] Basel Univ, Integrat Prehist & Archaeol Sci IPAS, Basel, Switzerland; [Kantorovich, Anatoly R.] Lomonosov Moscow State Univ, Fac Hist, Dept Archaeol, Moscow, Russia; [Maslov, Vladimir E.; Petrenko, Vladimira G.] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Archaeol, Moscow, Russia; [Lyakhov, Sergey V.; Kalmykov, Alexey A.; Belinskiy, Andrey B.] Heritage Org Ltd, Nasledie, Stavropol, Russia; [Alt, Kurt W.] Danube Private Univ DPU, Ctr Nat & Cultural Human Hist, Krems Stein, Austria
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Knipper, Corina,Reinhold, Sabine,Gresky, Julia,et al. Diet and subsistence in Bronze Age pastoral communities from the southern Russian steppes and the North Caucasus[J],2020,15(10).
APA	Knipper, Corina.,Reinhold, Sabine.,Gresky, Julia.,Berezina, Nataliya.,Gerling, Claudia.,...&Alt, Kurt W..(2020).Diet and subsistence in Bronze Age pastoral communities from the southern Russian steppes and the North Caucasus.PLOS ONE,15(10).
MLA	Knipper, Corina,et al."Diet and subsistence in Bronze Age pastoral communities from the southern Russian steppes and the North Caucasus".PLOS ONE 15.10(2020).