Cultural diversity shaped neolithic subsistence in the Carpathian Basin.

ABSTRACT: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis from archaeological human and animal bone collagen is a powerful tool to enlighten past socio-agricultural systems and their close links to environmental conditions. To assess whether isotopic patterns are a function of cultural behavior or rather determined by environmental diversity, we test the spatio-temporal effects of conditional and multivariate exploratory and environmental models on stable isotope variability in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Carpathian Basin (6000-2800 BCE). Our results stress that variation in environmental settings influence both the isotope baselines and the subsistence strategies of early agricultural societies. Major shifts in isotopic patterns are, however, culturally-driven, which is particularly visible with the

SUBMITTER: Depaermentier MLC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11794553 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature