An Analysis of the Last 1000 Years Human Diet on Tutuila (American Samoa) Using Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Data
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2655536 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Valentin (0000-0002-0575-7681, Préhistoire et Technologie, corresponding author), Estelle Herrscher (0000-0001-9339-4325, Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe Afrique), Fiona Petchey (0000-0002-3308-9983), David J Addison, David Addison (0000-0003-2469-7933, American Samoa Community College) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 473-486 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7183/0002-7316.76.3.473 |
| OpenAlex | W2324930792 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 58 |
This paper reports the first set of isotopic data relating to human diet from the Samoan Archipelago. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data measured on bone collagen were used to assess dietary patterns of prehistoric communities on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. We examined 14 human bones from three sites dated to three distinct periods: ~1,000 years ago (N = 5); -500 years ago (N = 8) and -150 years ago (N = 1). The isotopie data suggest that the human diet on Tutuila over the last 1,000 years was composed mainly of terrestrial resources with some consumption of coastal reef products. These data suggest a possible dietary change over time, with a higher dependence on marine resources in the earlier period shifting to a more terrestrial diet in the later period. Several possibilities for this dietary shift are suggested including: change in community specialization; marine resource depression; disintensification of marine procurement; intensification of horticultural production; and cultural or social changes in resource allocation
American samoa · Archaeology · Archipelago · Biology · Geography · Human bone · Isotope analysis · Isotopes of nitrogen · Marine conservation · Period (music) · Prehistory · Resource (disambiguation) · Resource consumption · Stable isotope ratio · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Isotope Analysis in Ecology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
Dietary Opportunities and Constraints on Islands
Historicizing Food Production in Polynesia
A stable isotope (δ 13 C and δ 15 N) perspective on human diet on rapa nui (Easter Island) ca. AD 1400–1900
Radiocarbon dating of burials from the Teouma Lapita cemetery, Efate, Vanuatu
Expanding on incremental dentin methodology to investigate childhood and infant feeding practices on Taumako (southeast Solomon Islands)
Neanderthals versus Modern Humans
Radiocarbon Dating Human Skeletal Material on Rapa Nui
Isotopic evidence of human mobility and diet in a prehistoric/protohistoric F ijian coastal environment (c. 750–150 BP )
Multiproxy isotopic analyses of human skeletal material from Rapa Nui
Isotopic insights into diet and health at the site of Namu, Taumako Island, Southeast Solomon Islands
Isotopic Insights into Dietary Life History, Social Status, and Food Sharing in American Samoa
Isotopic composition of atmospheric CO2 inferred from carbon in C4 plant cellulose
Incorporating concentration dependence in stable isotope mixing models
Source partitioning using stable isotopes
Influence of diet on the distribution of carbon isotopes in animals
New Method of Collagen Extraction for Radiocarbon Dating
Influence of diet on the distribution of nitrogen isotopes in animals
Postmortem preservation and alteration of in vivo bone collagen isotope ratios in relation to palaeodietary reconstruction
Isotope analysis of human and animal diets from the Hanamiai archaeological site (French Polynesia)
Environmental and climatic considerations
Stable isotopic analysis of human diet in the Marianas Archipelago, Western Pacific
Examining Causes and Trends in Marine Trophic Level Change
Stable isotope evidence for salt-marsh grazing in the Bronze Age Severn Estuary, UK
Dietary patterns during the late prehistoric/historic period in Cikobia island (Fiji)
Testing the human factor
Investigating shellfish deposition and landscape history at the Natia Beach site, Fiji
A radiocarbon chronology for Sāmoan prehistory
Dietary change in Fijian prehistory
Isotopic Comparison of Hair, Nail and Bone
Stable isotope evidence for palaeodiets in southern Turkmenistan during Historical period and Iron Age
Isotopic evidence of inland-water fishing by a Jomon population excavated from the Boji site, Nagano, Japan
Bone Diagenesis and Radiocarbon Dating of Fish Bones at the Shag River Mouth Site, New Zealand
Investigating foetal and perinatal mortality in prehistoric skeletal samples
Lapita subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns in the community of Teouma (Efate, Vanuatu)
Dietary reconstruction of an early to middle Holocene human population from the central California coast
Bone Collagen Quality Indicators for Palaeodietary and Radiocarbon Measurements
Prehistoric Fijian diet and subsistence
Une analyse diachronique des pratiques funéraires préhistoriques du centre du Vanuatu
Use of Three Isotopes to Calibrate Human Bone Radiocarbon Determinations from Kainapirina (SAC), Watom Island, Papua New Guinea
Biogeochemical approaches to paleodietary analysis
Investigations into the effect of diet on modern human hair isotopic values
Collagen turnover in the adult femoral mid‐shaft
Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes as tracers of change in diet breadth during Middle and Upper Palaeolithic in Europe
New Ideas about Late Holocene Climate Variability in the Central Pacific
Assessing the role of climate change and human predation on marine resources at the Fatu‐ma‐Futi site, Tutuila Island, American Samoa
Prehistoric fishing in Palau, Micronesia
Weaning and infant mortality
Dental caries in nineteenth century Upper Canada
Trophic level isotopic enrichment of carbon and nitrogen in bone collagen
Cultivation in Old Samoa
Late Holocene Landscape Evolution and Land-Use Expansion in Tutuila, American Samoa
Stable Carbon- and Nitrogen-Isotope Ratios of Bone Collagen Used to Study Coral-Reef and Terrestrial Components of Prehistoric Bahamian Diet
Archaeology in Western Samoa I
The Importance of Marine Protein in the Diet of Coastal Australian Aborigines
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,73 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2020 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |