Changing cultures, changing cuisines: Cultural transitions and dietary change in iron age, roman, and early medieval croatia

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 543-556

  Lightfoot, E ^a   Slaus M ^b   O'Connell, T C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Croatia)

Author keywords

carbon; Dalmatia; nitrogen; stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COLLAGEN; NITROGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRON AGE; MIDDLE AGES; MIGRATION; MILLET; NONHUMAN;

EID: 85027935893     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22070     Document Type: Article

References (98)

1. Ambrose SH,. 1990. Preparation and characterization of bone and tooth collagen for isotopic analysis. J Archaeol Sci 17: 431-451.
2. Ambrose SH, Norr L,. 1993. Experimental evidence for the relationship of the carbon isotope ratios of whole diet and dietary protein to those of bone collagen and carbonate. In:, Lambert J, Grupe G, editors. Prehistoric human bone: archaeology at the molecular level. New York: Springer-Verlag. p 1-37.
3. Anthony DW,. 1997. Prehistoric migration as social process. In:, Chapman JC, Hamerow H, editors. Migrations and invasions in archaeological explanation. Oxford: Archaeopress. p 21-32.
4. Appian. History of Rome: the Illyrian wars. White H, translator. London: Heinemann.
5. Badalamenti F, D'Anna G, Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC,. 2002. Size-related trophodynamic changes in three target fish species recovering from intensive trawling. Mar Biol 141: 561-570. (Pubitemid 36064297)
6. Barada M,. 1952. Hrvatska diaspora i Avari. Starohrvatska Prosveta III 2: 7-14.
7. Barford. 2001. The early Slavs: culture and society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe. London: British Museum Press.
8. Bartosiewicz L,. 1996. Early Medieval faunal remains from Pontes (Iron Gates gorge, eastern Serbia). Acta Archaeol Acad Sci Hungaricae 48: 281-315.
9. Batovi A. 1987. Liburnska grupa. In: Benac A, editor. Praistorija jugoslavenskih zemalja V: Bronzano doba. Sarajevo: Svjetlost. p 339-390.
10. Beug H-J,. 1977. Studies on vegetational history of the coastal area of Istria (Yugoslavia). Flora 166: 357-381.
11. Bocherens H, Drucker D,. 2003. Trophic level isotopic enrichment of carbon and nitrogen in bone collagen: case studies from recent and ancient terrestrial ecosystems. Int J Osteoarchaeol 13: 46-53. (Pubitemid 40355744)
12. Brande A,. 1973. Investigations of postglacial vegetational history of the Neretva lowlands (Dalmatia, Hercegovina). Flora 162: 1-44.
13. Brande A,. 1989. Patterns of Holocene vegetation and landscape changes in south Dalmatia. Ecol Mediterr 15: 45-53.
14. Bronk Ramsey C, Higham T, Bowles A, Hedges REM,. 2004a. Improvements to the pretreatment of bone at Oxford. Radiocarbon 46: 155-163. (Pubitemid 39030578)
15. Bronk Ramsey C, Higham T, Leach P,. 2004b. Towards high-precision AMS: and limitations. Radiocarbon 46: 17-224.
16. Bronk Ramsey C,. 2009. Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon dates. Radiocarbon 51: 337-360.
17. Bronk Ramsey C, Higham TFG, Owen DC, Pike AWG, Hedges REM,. 2010. Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry Datelist 31. Archaeom 44: 1-150.
18. Castagnoli GC, Bonino G, Taricco C, Bernascosi SM,. 2002. Solar radiation variability in the last 1400 years recorded in the carbon isotope ratio of a Mediterranean Sea core. Adv Space Res 29: 1989-1994. (Pubitemid 34781354)
19. Chapman JC, Shiel R, Batovi S,. 1996. The changing face of Dalmatia: archaeological and ecological studies in a Mediterranean landscape. London: Leicester University Press.
20. Chenery C, Müldner G, Evans J, Eckardt H, Lewis M,. 2010. Strontium and stable isotope evidence for diet and mobility in Roman Gloucester, UK. J Archaeol Sci 37: 150-163.
21. Craig H,. 1957. Isotopic standards for carbon and oxygen and correction factors for mass-spectromic analysis of carbon dioxide. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 12: 133-149.
22. Craig OE, Biazzo M, O'Connell TC, Garnsey P, Martinez-Labarga C, Lelli R, Salvadei L, Tartaglia G, Nava A, Reno L, Flammenghi A, Rickards O, Bondioli L,. 2009. Stable isotope evidence for diet at the imperial Roman coastal site of Velia (1st and 2nd centuries AD) in southern Italy. Am J Phys Anthropol 139: 572-583.
23. Curta F,. 2006. Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages 500-1250. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
24. Daim F,. 1998. Archaeology, ethnicity and the structures of identification: the example of the Avars, Carontians and Moravians in the eighth century. In:, Pohl W, Reimitz H, editors. Strategies of distinction: the construction of ethnic communities, 300-800. Leiden: Brill. p 71-93.
25. De Niro MJ,. 1985. Postmortem preservation and alteration of in vivo bone collagen isotope ratios in relation to paleodietary reconstruction. Nature 317: 806-809.
26. Dell HJ,. 1967. The origin and nature of Illyrian piracy. Historia 16: 344-358.
27. Douglas M,. 1972. Deciphering a meal. Daedalus 101: 61-81.
28. Evans HMA,. 1989. The early medieval archaeology of Croatia: A.D. 600-900. Oxford: Archaeopress.
29. Evans HMA,. 1996. The Medieval Ravni Kotari: a synthesis. In:, Chapman J, Shiel R, Batovic S, editors. The changing face of Dalmatia: archaeological and ecological studies in a medieval landscape. London: Leicester University Press. p 294-308.
30. Fine JVA,. 1991. The early medieval Balkans: a critical survey from the sixth to the late twelfth century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
31. Francalacci P,. 1988. Comparison of archaeological, trace element and stable isotope data from two Italian coastal sites. Rivista di Antropologia 46: 239-250.
32. Frayn JM,. 1993. Markets and fairs in Roman Italy. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
33. Friedman LG, O'Connell TC,. An isotopic investigation of the human remains from the late Roman cemetery at Babraham, Cambridgeshire. In:, Timberlake S, Dodwell N, Armour N, editors. The Roman cemetery, the Babraham Institute, Cambridgeshire: an archaeological excavation. Cambridge: Cambridge Archaeological Unit Report, University of Cambridge (in press).
34. Fuller BT, Molleson TI, Harris DA, Gilmour LT, Hedges REM,. 2006. Isotopic evidence for breastfeeding and possible adult dietary differences from late/sub-Roman Britain. Am J Phys Anthropol 129: 45-54. (Pubitemid 41821660)
35. Gaffney V,. 2006. A game of numbers: rural settlement in Dalmatia and the Dalmatian islands. In:, Davison D, Gaffney V, Marin E, editors. Dalmatia: research in the Roman province 1970-2001. Oxford: Archaeopress. p 89-106.
36. Goldstein I,. 1999. Between Byzantium, the Adriatic and Central Europe. In: Supiči I, editor. Croatia in the early Middle Ages: a cultural survey. London: Philip Wilson Publishers. p 169-178.
37. Hajnalova E,. 1982. Archäobotanishce funde aus krivina. In:, Hermann J, Wachtel K, editors. Iatrus krivina II: Ergebnisse der ausgrabungen 1966-1973. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. p 207-236.
38. Hakenbeck S, McManus E, Geisler H, Grupe G, O'Connell TC,. 2010. Diet and mobility in Early Medieval Bavaria: a study of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes. Am J Phys Anthropol 143: 235-249.
39. Harris M,. 1985. Good to eat: riddles of food and culture. London: Allen & Unwin.
40. Hedges REM, Reynard L,. 2007. Nitrogen isotopes and the trophic level of humans in archaeology. J Archaeol Sci 34: 1240-1251. (Pubitemid 46523601)
41. Henning J,. 1987. Sudosteuropa zwushcen antike und mittelater. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
42. Howland MR, Corr LT, Young SMM, Jones V, Jim S, Van der Merwe NJ, Mitchell AD, Evershed RP,. 2003. Expression of the dietary isotope signal in the compound-specific delta(13) values of pig bone lipids and amino acids. Int J Osteoarchaeol 13: 54-65. (Pubitemid 40355745)
43. Hull BD, O'Connell TC,. 2011 Diet: recent evidence from analytical chemical techniques. In:, Hamerow H, Crawford S, Hinton D, editors. The Oxford handbook of Anglo-Saxon archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
44. Huntley J,. 1996. The plant remains. In:, Chapman J, Shiel RS, Batovi S, editors. The changing face of Dalmatia: archaeological and ecological studies in a Mediterranean landscape. London: Leicester University Press. p 225.
45. Jay M,. 2008. Iron Age diet at Glastonbury lake village: the isotopic evidence for negligible aquatic resource consumption. Oxford J Archaeol 27: 201-216.
46. Jay M, Richards MP,. 2006. Diet in the Iron Age cemetery population at Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire, UK: carbon and nitrogen stable isotope evidence. J Archaeol Sci 33: 653-662.
47. Jay M, Richards MP,. 2007. British Iron Age diet: stable isotopes and BK evidence. Proc Prehist Soc 73: 171-192.
48. 13C stable isotope composition of plants, invertebrates and fishes on Mediterranean reefs: implications for the study of trophic pathways. Mar Ecol-Prog Ser 146: 109-111.
49. Jim S, Jones V, Ambrose SH, Evershed RP,. 2006. Quantifying dietary macronutrient sources of carbon for bone collagen biosynthesis using natural abundance stable carbon isotope analysis. Br J Nutr 95: 1055-1062. (Pubitemid 43985983)
50. Katzenberg MA, Lovell NC,. 1999. Stable isotope variation in pathological bone. Int J Osteoarchaeol 9: 316-324.
51. Keenleyside A, Schwarcz H, Stirling L, Lazreg NB,. 2009. Stable isotopic evidence for diet in a Roman and late Roman population from Leptiminus, Tunisia. J Archaeol Sci 36: 51-63.
52. Lightfoot E,. 2009. Bioarchaeological analyses of archaeological populations from Croatia: a comparison of isotopic and archaeological results. PhD thesis submitted to the University of Cambridge.
53. Lightfoot E, Boneva B, Miracle PT, Alaus M, O'Connell TC,. 2011. Exploring the Mesolithic and Neolithic transition in Croatia through isotopic investigations. Antiquity 85: 73-86.
54. Lightfoot E, O'Connell TC, Stevens RE, Hamilton J, Hey G, Hedges REM,. 2009. An investigation into diet at the site of Yarnton, Oxfordshire, using stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes. Oxford J Archaeol 28: 301-322.
55. Livy,. Ab urbe condita. 2000. Foster BO, translator. London: Heinemann.
56. Margeti L,. 1999. The Croatian state during the era of rulers from the Croatian national dynasty. In:, Supiči I, editor. Croatia in the Middle Ages: a cultural survey. London: Philip Wilson Publishers. p 197-214.
57. Mariotti A,. 1983. Atmospheric nitrogen is a reliable standard for natural N-15 abundance measurements. Nature 303: 685-687. (Pubitemid 14256484)
58. Marovi I,. 1999. O godini razorenja salone. Vjesnik za Arheologiju i Povijest Dalmatinsku 22: 253-273.
59. 18O record from SW Ireland. Science 294: 1328-1331.
60. Mekota AM, Grupe G, Ufer S, Cuntz U,. 2006. Serial analysis of stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes in hair: monitoring starvation and recovery phases of patients suffering from anorexia nervosa. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 20: 1604-1610.
61. Michalova A,. 2005. Minor cereals and pseudocereals in Europe. In:, Lipman E, Maggioni L, Knüpffer H, Ellis R, Leggett JM, Kleijer G, Faberova I, Le Blanc A, editors. Cereal genetic resources in Europe. Rome: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute. p 196-200.
62. Müldner G, Richards MP,. 2007. Stable isotope evidence for 1500 years of human diet at the city of York, UK. Am J Phys Anthropol 133: 682-697. (Pubitemid 46668472)
63. Nye S,. 1996. The plant remains. In:, Chapman J, Shiel R, Batovi S, editors. The changing face of Dalmatia: archaeological and ecological studies in a Mediterranean landscape. London: Leicester University Press. p 240-242.
64. O'Connell TC, Hedges REM,. 1999. Investigations into the effect of diet on modern human hair isotopic values. Am J Phys Anthropol 108: 409-425. (Pubitemid 29165367)
65. Pinnegar JK, Polunin NVC,. 2000. Contributions of stable-isotope data to elucidating food webs of Mediterranean rocky littoral fishes. Oecologia 122: 399-409. (Pubitemid 30144214)
66. Piteša A,. 2006. The Slavs and the early Croatian state. In:, Davison D, Gaffney V, Marin E, editors. Dalmatia: research in the Roman province 1970-2001: papers in honour of JJ Wilkes. Oxford: Archaeopress. p 193-212.
67. Pohl W,. 1997. The role of the steppe peoples in Eastern and Central Europe in the first millennium AD. In:, Urbanczyk P, editor. Origins of Central Europe. Warsaw: Scientific Society of Polish Archaeologists. p 65-78.
68. Pritsak O,. 1983. The Slavs and Avars. Settimane di Studio del Centro Italiano di Studi Sull'alto Medioevo 30: 353-432.
69. Privat KL, O'Connell TC, Richards MP,. 2002. Stable isotope analysis of human and faunal remains from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Berinsfield, Oxfordshire: dietary and social implications. J Archaeol Sci 29: 779-790. (Pubitemid 34805894)
70. Procopius. History of the Wars. Dewing HB, translator. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
71. Prowse T, Schwarcz HP, Saunders S, Macchiarelli R, Bondioli L,. 2004. Isotopic paleodiet studies of skeletons from the imperial roman-age cemetery of Isola Sacra, Rome, Italy. J Archaeol Sci 31: 259-272. (Pubitemid 38285855)
72. Purcell N,. 1995. Eating fish: the paradoxes of seafood. In:, Wilkins J, Harvey D, Dobson M, editors. Food in antiquity. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. p 132-149.
73. Redfern RC, Hamlin C, Athfield NB,. 2010. Temporal changes in diet: a stable isotope analysis of late Iron Age and Roman Dorset, Britain. J Archaeol Sci 37: 1140-1160.
74. Reimer PJ, Baillie MGL, Bard E, Bayliss A, Beck JW, Bertrand CJH,. 2004. IntCal04 terrestrial radiocarbon age calibration, 0-26 cal kyr BP. Radiocarbon 46: 1029-1058.
75. Richards MP, Hedges REM,. 1999. Stable isotope evidence for similarities in the types of marine foods used by late Mesolithic humans at sites along the Atlantic coast of Europe. J Archaeol Sci 26: 717-722. (Pubitemid 29483521)
76. Richards MP, Hedges REM, Molleson TI, Vogel JC,. 1998. Stable isotope analysis reveals variations in human diet at the Poundbury camp cemetery site. J Archaeol Sci 25: 1247-1252. (Pubitemid 29145510)
77. Richards MP, Mellars PA,. 1998. Stable isotopes and the seasonality of Oronsay middens. Antiquity 72: 178-184. (Pubitemid 128688115)
78. Rutgers LV, van Strydonck M, Boudin M, van der Linde C,. 2009. Stable isotope data from the early Christian catacombs of ancient Rome: new insights into the dietary habits of Rome's early Christians. J Archaeol Sci 36: 1127-1134.
79. Salamon M, Coppa A, McCormick M, Rubini M, Vargiu R, Tuross N,. 2008. The consilience of historical and isotopic approaches in reconstructing the medieval Mediterranean diet. J Archaeol Sci 35: 1667-1672.
80. Schoeninger MJ, De Niro MJ,. 1984. Nitrogen and carbon isotopic composition of bone-collagen from marine and terrestrial animals. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 48: 625-639.
81. Schoeninger MJ, De Niro MJ, Tauber H,. 1983. Stable nitrogen isotope ratios of bone collagen reflect marine and terrestrial components of prehistoric human diet. Science 220: 1381-1383.
82. Schwartz C,. 1996. The faunal remains. In:, Chapman J, Shiel R, Batovi S, editors. The changing face of Dalmatia: archaeological and ecological studies in a Mediterranean landscape. London: Leicester University Press. p 239-240.
83. Alaus M,. 2008. Osteological and dental markers of health in the transition from the late antique to the Early Medieval period in Croatia. Am J Phys Anthropol 136: 455-469.
84. Alaus M, Bedi A, Rajiikanji P, Vodanovi M, Kuni AD,. 2010. Dental health at the transition from the Late Antique to the Early Medieval period on Croatia's Eastern Adriatic coast. Int J Osteoarchaeol 21: 577-590.
85. Stevens RE, Hedges REM,. 2004. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of northwest European horse bone and tooth collagen, 40,000 BP-present: palaeoclimatic interpretations. Quat Sci Rev 23: 977-991. (Pubitemid 38355784)
86. Stevens RE, Lightfoot E, Hamilton J, Cunliffe B, Hedges REM,. 2010. Stable isotope investigations of the Danebury hill fort pit burials. Oxford J Archaeol 29: 407-428.
87. Stuiver M, Reimer PJ,. 1993. Extended 14C database and revised CALIB radiocarbon calibration program. Radiocarbon 35: 215-230. (Pubitemid 23382454)
88. Sui M,. 1981. Zadar u starom vijeku. Zadar: Filozofski Fakultet Zadar.
89. Supek I,. 1999. Introduction. In:, Supiči I, editor. Croatia in the early Middle Ages. London: Philip Wilson Publishers. p 5-10.
90. 2, bone collagen, bioapatite and soft tissues. In:, Lambert JB, Grupe G, editors. Prehistoric human bone: archaeology at the molecular level. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. p 121-155.
91. Tomka P,. 1998. Customs of eating and hospitality among nomadic peoples of the migration period. In:, Laszlovszky J, editor. Tender meat under the saddle: customs of eating, drinking and hospitality among conquering Hungarian and nomadic peoples. Krems: Medium Aevum Quotidianum. p 75-97.
92. Triantaphyllou S, Richards MP, Zerner C, Voutsaki S,. 2008. Isotopic dietary reconstruction of humans from Middle Bronze Age Lerna, Argolid, Greece. J Archaeol Sci 35: 3028-3034.
93. Váa F,. 1983. The world of the ancient Slavs. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
94. Vinski Gasparini K, Ercegovi S,. 1958. Ranosrednjovjekovno groblje u brodskom drenovcu. Vjesnik Arheološkog Muzeju u Zagrebu 1: 129-161.
95. Vogel JC, Van der Merwe NJ,. 1977. Isotopic evidence for early maize cultivation in New York state. Am Antiq 42: 238-242.
96. Wilkes JJ,. 1969. Dalmatia. London: Routledge and Keegan Paul.
97. Wilkes JJ,. 1992. The Illyrians. Oxford: Blackwell.
98. Woldrich J,. 1904. Wirbeltierfauna des pfahlbaues von donja dolina in Bosnien. Wissenschaftliche Mittheilungen aus Bosnien und der Hercegovina 9: 156-164.