Cosa V: An Intermittent Town, Excavations 1991-1997

Fentress, Elizabeth; Bodel, John; Buttrey, T. V.; Camaiani, Stefano; Cavari, F.; Cerri, Laura; Cirelli, Enrico; Fontana, Simona; Gliozzo, Elisabetta; Gruspier, Katherine; Gusberti, Elisa; Hobart, Michelle; Lolini, Valentina; Lunghetti, Francesca; Moseley, Alex; Nerucci, Silvia; Rabinowitz, Adam; Rovelli, Alessia; Taylor, Rabun; Simpson, Christopher J.; Falkenhausen, Vera von

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“…Never a truly prosperous city, its economy was mainly based on the cultivation of wheat and olives. Following its decline during the 4th and 5th centuries CE, commerce and trade resumed in the early 6th century and new buildings were constructed (Fentress and Bodel, 2004), among which was a church built over the Forum ruins. The area was still inhabited during the 11th and 12th centuries CE, as documented by a medieval church and cemetery in the Forum area.…”

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“…Four humans (2 adults: 1 female and 1 male, and 2 children) were found in the IX D North area which is comprised of the cemetery of a 6th century CE church cemetery built in the area of the Forum (Fentress and Bodel, 2004).…”

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“…We compare her isotopic data with those obtained from the other individuals recovered from the same site but from two later periods: 6th century CE and 11th-12th century CE (Fentress and Bodel, 2004 (Mariotti, 1983) and the Vienna-PeeDee belemnite (V-PDB) marine limestone for carbon (Coplen, 1996). Stable isotope signatures provide information about diet: nitrogen is obtained from dietary protein whereas carbon in bone collagen is preferentially obtained from dietary protein (Ambrose and Norr, 1993;Tieszen and Fagre, 1993), but it can also be derived from other dietary components such as carbohydrates and lipids, particularly when diets are low in protein (Jim et al, 2006).…”

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Palaeodiet reconstruction in a woman with probable celiac disease: A stable isotope analysis of bone remains from the archaeological site of Cosa (Italy)

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Martínez-Labarga

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American J Phys Anthropol

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Stable isotope analysis in the reconstruction of human palaeodiets can yield clues to early human subsistence strategies, origins and history of farming and pastoralist societies, and intra- and intergroup social differentiation. In the last 10 years, the method has been extended to the pathological investigation. Stable isotope analysis to better understand a diet-related disease: celiac disease in ancient human bones was carried out. To do this, we analyzed the nitrogen and carbon isotopic composition of human (n = 37) and faunal (n = 8) bone remains from the archaeological site of Cosa at Ansedonia, on the Tyrrhenian coast near Orbetello (Tuscany), including the skeletal remains of a young woman (late 1st century-early 2nd century Common Era [CE]) with morphological and genetic features suggestive of celiac disease. We compared the young woman's isotopic data with those of other individuals recovered at the same site but from two later time periods (6th century CE; 11-12th century CE) and with literature data from other Italian archaeological sites dating to the same period. Her collagen δ(13) C and δ(15) N values differed from those of the samples at the same site, and from most but not all of the contemporary sites. Although the woman's diet appears distinct, chronic malnutrition resulting from severe malabsorption of essential nutrients due to celiac disease may have affected the isotopic composition of her bone collagen.

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Palaeodiet reconstruction in a woman with probable celiac disease: A stable isotope analysis of bone remains from the archaeological site of Cosa (Italy)

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Martínez-Labarga

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“…Cosa : Fentress 2003. The left ala of the House of Diana is described as "shortened to insert a room floored in beaten earth that was probably in tended for storage" (Fentress 2003,17).…”

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“…18 Bruno and Scott 1993;Pesando 1997, 275-305;Coarelli and Monti 1998;Torelli 1999;Fentress 2003;Bragantini et al 2008. if Fregellae: Coarelli and Monti 1998, 64-5; contra Pesan do 2008, 160 ("inizio III secolo"). Cosa : Fentress 2003.…”

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