Integrating buccal and occlusal dental microwear with isotope analyses for a complete paleodietary reconstruction of Holocene populations from Hungary.

ABSTRACT: Dietary reconstruction is used to make inferences about the subsistence strategies of ancient human populations, but it may also serve as a proxy to characterise their diverse cultural and technological manifestations. Dental microwear and stable isotope analyses have been shown to be successful techniques for paleodietary reconstruction of ancient populations but, despite yielding complementary dietary information, these techniques have rarely been combined within the same study. Here we present for the first time a comprehensive approach to interpreting ancient lifeways through the results of buccal and occlusal microwear, and δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N isotope analyses applied to the same individuals of prehistoric populations of Hungary from the Middle Neolithic to the Late Br

SUBMITTER: Hernando R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8007593 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature