Unravelling the resilience of the KGK VI population from the Gumelnita site (Romania) through stable isotopes.

ABSTRACT: The Gumelnița site belongs to the Kodjadermen-Gumelnița-Karanovo VI (KGK VI) communities (c. 4700-3900 cal BC) and comprises the tell-type settlement and its corresponding cemetery. This paper reconstructs the diet and lifeways of the Chalcolithic people in the northeastern Balkans using archaeological remains found at the Gumelnița site (Romania). A multi-bioarchaeological investigation (archaeobotany, zooarchaeology, anthropology) was conducted on vegetal, animal, and human remains, alongside radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analyses (δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N) of humans (n = 33), mammals (n = 38), reptiles (n = 3), fishes (n = 8), freshwater mussels shells (n = 18), and plants (n = 24). According to the results of δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N values and FRUITS, the in

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Vazquez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10213031 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature