Sr isotopic composition as a tool for unraveling human mobility in the Campania area

Arienzo, Ilenia; Rucco, Ilaria; Vito, M. A. Di; D’Antonio, Massimo; Cesarano, Mario; Carandente, Antonio; Angelis, Flavio De; Romboni, Marco; Rickards, Olga

doi:10.1007/s12520-020-01088-0

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“…Such an approach has already been applied in a multitude of Italian BA funerary contexts [11,12,53,54]. Conversely, Sr isotopes from bones and enamel are typically used as valuable proxies for inferring the mobility of individuals and, provided that an individual's diet is mainly based on local food and drink, can be used to mark the place of childhood residence [55][56][57]. The Sr bioavailability and its isotopic composition are also influenced by dietary habits.…”

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La Sassa cave: Isotopic evidence for Copper Age and Bronze Age population dynamics in Central Italy

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This study focuses on the changes in diet and mobility of people buried in the La Sassa cave (Latium, Central Italy) during the Copper and Bronze Ages to contribute to the understanding of the complex contemporary population dynamics in Central Italy. To that purpose, carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses, strontium isotope analyses, and FT-IR evaluations were performed on human and faunal remains from this cave. The stable isotope analyses evidence a slight shift in diet between Copper and Bronze Age individuals, which becomes prominent in an individual, dating from a late phase, when the cave was mainly used as a cultic shelter. This diachronic study documents an increased dietary variability due to the introduction of novel resources in these protohistoric societies, possibly related to the southward spread of northern human groups into Central Italy. This contact between different cultures is also testified by the pottery typology found in the cave. The latter shows an increase in cultural intermingling starting during the beginning of the middle Bronze Age. The local mobility during this phase likely involved multiple communities scattered throughout an area of a few kilometers around the cave, which used the latter as a burial site both in the Copper and Bronze ages.

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