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dc.contributor.authorGrice, Kliti
dc.contributor.authorAtahan, P.
dc.contributor.authorLi, X.
dc.contributor.authorChen L.
dc.contributor.authorHu, S.
dc.contributor.authorZhou, X.
dc.contributor.authorBurtuch, F.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:43:02Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:43:02Z
dc.date.created2012-01-22T20:00:26Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationAtahan, Pia and Dodson, John and Li, Xiaoquang and Zhou, Xinying and Hu, Songmei and Chen, Liang and Burtuch, Fiona and Grice, Kliti. 2011. Early Neolithic diets at Baijia, Wei River valley, China: stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of human and faunal remains. Journal of Archaeological Science. 38 (10): pp. 2811-2817.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34372
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jas.2011.06.032
dc.description.abstract

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values are presented for faunal and human bone collagen from Baijia, in the Wei River valley region of Shaanxi Province, China. The remains have a calibrated age range of ca. 5709–5389 BC, and correspond with the early Neolithic Laoguantai Period. Stable isotopic results indicate that human diets included millet and probably aquatic foods such as fish and shellfish. Bovid samples are tentatively identified as water buffalo, and have a mean δ13C value of -14.6‰, which reflects some millet consumption. Whether bovids were grazing on wild millet, or had diets directly influenced by humans, is not known. The single Sus sample from Baijia had a diet dominated by C3 plants and is thus unlikely to have been a domesticated animal. Overall, the stable isotope results presented here conform to the current concept that the people of the Laoguantai culture were millet farmers, who had subsistence strategies that included hunted wild foods.

dc.publisherAcademic Press
dc.subjectIsotope
dc.subjectWater buffalo
dc.subjectNeolithic
dc.subjectNorthern China
dc.subjectMillet agriculture
dc.titleEarly Neolithic diets at Baijia, Wei River valley, China: stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of human and faunal remains
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume38
dcterms.source.number10
dcterms.source.startPage2811
dcterms.source.endPage2817
dcterms.source.issn03054403
dcterms.source.titleJournal of Archaeological Science
curtin.departmentDepartment of Applied Chemistry
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