Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence in Mediterranean coastal environments: An isotopic study of the diets of the earliest directly-dated humans from Sicily

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3094-3100

  Mannino, Marcello A ^a   di Salvo, Rosaria ^b   Schimmenti, Vittoria ^b   di Patti, Carolina ^c   Incarbona, Alessandro ^c   Sineo, Luca ^c   Richards, Michael P ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope analyses; Grotta dell'Addaura; Grotta di San Teodoro; Hunter gatherers; Late Upper Palaeolithic; Mediterranean; Nitrogen isotope analyses

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CARBON ISOTOPE; COASTAL PLAIN; DIET; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HOMINID; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HUNTER-GATHERER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE GLACIAL; MARINE RESOURCE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; RECOLONIZATION; RESOURCE USE; SUBSISTENCE;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SICILY;

CERVUS ELAPHUS; MAMMALIA; SALMO TRUTTA;

EID: 80052302107     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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