Stable isotope analysis of Late Upper Palaeolithic human and faunal remains from Grotta del Romito (Cosenza), Italy

Changing patterns of eastern Mediterranean shellfish exploitation in the Late Glacial and Early Holocene: Oxygen isotope evidence from gastropod in Epipaleolithic to Neolithic human occupation layers at the Haua Fteah cave, Libya

“…This can be seen from stable isotope analyses of bone collagen from various Mediterranean archaeological sites, which generally suggest little or no marine food consumption (e.g. Paine et al, 2009;Craig et al, 2010;Lightfoot et al, 2011;Mannino et al, 2011Mannino et al, , 2012. Although, regional variability exists as at some sites in the western Mediterranean, the contribution of marine resources to the diet at this time is estimated to be as high as 25% (Guixe' et al, 2006).…”

Isotope and faunal evidence for high levels of freshwater fish consumption by Late Glacial humans at the Late Upper Palaeolithic site of Šandalja II, Istria, Croatia

“…These comprise human remains from the Sicilian sites of Grotta d'Oriente (Mannino et al, 2012), Grotta Addaura Caprara and Grotta di San Teodoro (Mannino et al, 2011a, b), and the mainland sites of Grotta del Romito (Craig et al, 2010), Ripero Tagliente (Gazzoni et al, 2013) and Arene Candide (Francalacci, 1988). Most of these Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic humans had d 13 C values centred around À20‰ and d 15 N values close to 9‰, indicating that the source of their dietary protein was largely terrestrial, with little input from aquatic resources, despite the close proximity of a number of the sites to the coast.…”

“…Three individuals did have isotopic evidence for regular aquatic food consumption. A single individual from the site of Grotta del Romito (Romito 9) had isotope values indicative of marine food consumption, probably in addition to regular freshwater fish consumption, with a d 13 C value of À18.9‰ and a relatively high d 15 N value of 12.4‰ (Craig et al, 2010). Similarly, a single individual from the site of Ripero Tagliente had a d 13 C value of À18.4‰, and an elevated d 15 N value of 13.0‰, also indicating likely marine food consumption in addition to freshwater fish consumption (Gazzoni et al, 2013).…”

“…15,000e12,000 BP) human remains from Western Europe have been undertaken, deriving from the UK (Richards et al, 2000(Richards et al, , 2005, France (Drucker et al, 2005;Naito et al, 2013), Spain (Garcia-Guix e et al, 2009) and Italy (Craig et al, 2010;Francalacci, 1988;Mannino et al, 2011a,b;, Gazzoni et al, 2013. To date there have been no applications to humans from this time period across much of the continent and particularly in Eastern or South East Europe.…”

Interrelationship of age and diet in Romania’s oldest human burial

“…The Climente II burial thus joins a small group of directly dated LUP burials from the Bølling-Allerød Interstadial (cf. Craig et al 2010;Pettitt 2010;Mannino et al 2011) and is currently the only such burial from Southeast Europe. The C-and N-isotope results add to the growing evidence that inland aquatic foods were important in the diets of some European Upper Palaeolithic groups (cf.…”