A multi-proxy bioarchaeological approach reveals new trends in Bronze Age diet in Italy.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates changes in dietary practices and subsistence strategies in Bronze Age Italy integrating isotopic analyses with archaeobotanical and archaeozoological data. By investigating food habits, we contribute to reconstructing human lifestyles and highlighting possible links with the economic/social organization when the rise of stratified societies and new economic activities affected subsistence practices. Stable isotopes analyses in humans and animals were performed on 6 Italian sites dating from 2300 to 900 cal. BC, followed by a complete review of additional 19 sites, which forms the basis of a diachronic and geographic comparison for Bronze Age Italy. The geographic analysis shows a more varied diet in northern and central Italy, compared to the south. The diachronic a

SUBMITTER: Varalli A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9288517 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature