Article Title：Stable isotope analysis and dental evidence of diet at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Ukraine
Abstract：
Bone collagen stable carbon isotope values obtained from late Mesolithic and earlier Neolithic skeletal remains from the Dnieper Rapids region of Ukraine confirm an overall dietary equivalence occurring across these periods. It appears that human populations consumed fisher-hunter-gatherer diets throughout the period c.10,000-4500cal- BC, with some limited archaeological evidence for the exploitation of domesticated animals occurring towards the end of this period. The analysis of dental pathologies from both periods establishes the protein-based nature of the dietary regimes. The addition of domesticated fauna towards the end of the Neolithic period, whilst attested by archaeological remains, is essentially invisible to both the palaeopathology and isotopic analyses carried out in this study. No secure evidence for the integration of cereal-based dietary regimes during either period was forthcoming from the study, though the precise nature of the observed variability in the stable isotopic evidence for diet remains to be established. Copyright 2000 Academic Press
Keywords: Ukraine; Mesolithic-Neolithic transition; stable isotopes and dental pathology; delta C-13; delta N-15; palaeodietary reconstruction
DOI: 10.1006/jasc.1999.0544
Source：JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
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