2021
DOI: 10.1002/oa.2994
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Abstract: This article aims to reveal the subsistence economy of the Qin and Han empires and why they continued to advance northward to defeat the Huns (Xiongnu 匈奴) and other grassland peoples in the Ordos Plateau. We present the δ 13 C and δ 15 N results for the dietary reconstruction of animals and humans from the Fuluta cemetery in the Ordos Plateau, a nomadic farming junction area, from the late Qin dynasty to the Western Han dynasty (202 BCE to 8 AD). Results show that the δ 13 C and δ 15 N values for humans (À8.5… Show more

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“…The ranges of stable isotope values vary greatly from one species to another, indicating that animals may be raised in different ways. The pigs have the most positive δ 13 C values (mean: −8.1 ± 0.5‰, n = 2) and the highest δ 15 N values (7.5 ± 0.5‰, n = 2), which indicates that pigs consumed C 4 based foods, C 4 plants and/or animals consuming C 4 plants mainly (Hu, 2019;Hu et al, 2020;Hou et al, 2021a;Hou et al, 2021b). Considering the fact that there is a long history of millet agriculture in northern Shaanxi (Sheng et al, 2018) and both millets (Panicum miliaceum, Setaria italica) are attributed to C 4 plants crops while the local vegetation was dominated by C 3 plants (Zhou et al, 2009), we suggest that pigs might have been fed by millet by-products.…”
Section: Animal Feeding Practicesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The ranges of stable isotope values vary greatly from one species to another, indicating that animals may be raised in different ways. The pigs have the most positive δ 13 C values (mean: −8.1 ± 0.5‰, n = 2) and the highest δ 15 N values (7.5 ± 0.5‰, n = 2), which indicates that pigs consumed C 4 based foods, C 4 plants and/or animals consuming C 4 plants mainly (Hu, 2019;Hu et al, 2020;Hou et al, 2021a;Hou et al, 2021b). Considering the fact that there is a long history of millet agriculture in northern Shaanxi (Sheng et al, 2018) and both millets (Panicum miliaceum, Setaria italica) are attributed to C 4 plants crops while the local vegetation was dominated by C 3 plants (Zhou et al, 2009), we suggest that pigs might have been fed by millet by-products.…”
Section: Animal Feeding Practicesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to the Liji (禮記), people used livestock as sacrifice, and people chose different animals according to their status as cattle were the highest grade called Tailao (太牢), sheep the next called Shaolao (少牢), and pigs the lowest grade called Kuishi (馈 食) (Xie, 2018). According to the archaeological discoveries although sheep were not mainly a meat source of human diets, they were the most common sacrificial animals throughout the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (Zuo, 2018;Zhao, 2020;Hou et al, 2021a). In that case, sacrificial animals of Chongpingyuan were the manifestation of this sacrificial culture.…”
Section: Animal Feeding Practicesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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