Diet and mobility in Early Medieval Bavaria
A study of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8317329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susanne Hakenbeck (0000-0003-2409-0146, University of Southampton, corresponding author), Ellen McManus (University of Cambridge), Hans Geisler (0000-0002-0368-3113), Hans E Geisler, Gisela Grupe (0000-0002-2731-2296, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), T C O''Connell (0000-0002-4744-0332, University of Cambridge), Tamsin O'Connell |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 143 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 235-249 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.21309 |
| PMID | 20853478 |
| OpenAlex | W2128508921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 66 |
| References cited | 38 |
This study investigates patterns of mobility in Early Medieval Bavaria through a combined study of diet and associated burial practice. Carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios were analyzed in human bone samples from the Late Roman cemetery of Klettham and from the Early Medieval cemeteries of Altenerding and Straubing‐Bajuwarenstrasse. For dietary comparison, samples of faunal bone from one Late Roman and three Early Medieval settlement sites were also analyzed. The results indicate that the average diet was in keeping with a landlocked environment and fairly limited availability of freshwater or marine resources. The diet appears not to have changed significantly from the Late Roman to the Early Medieval period. However, in the population of Altenerding, there were significant differences in the diet of men and women, supporting a hypothesis of greater mobility among women. Furthermore, the isotopic evidence from dietary outliers is supported by “foreign” grave goods and practices, such as artificial skull modification. These results reveal the potential of carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis for questions regarding migration and mobility. Am J Phys Anthropol 143:235–249, 2010. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc
Archaeology · Biology · Geography · Isotope analysis · Isotopes of nitrogen · Landlocked country · Nitrogen · Population · Settlement (finance) · Stable isotope ratio · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Chemistry · Demography · Ecology · Isotope Analysis in Ecology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
Living at the Outskirts of the Roman Empire after the Fall. A Study of 5th Century Bavarian Burials
Preliminary study of food residues and cooking practices in the Medieval Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena (Central Italy)
The Syro-Anatolian City-States
Minimally invasive bone biopsies of fully wrapped mummies guided by computed tomography and fibre-optic endoscopy
Pre-dating paprika
New home, new diet? Reconstruction of diet at the 10th century CE Hungarian Conquest period site of Kenézlő-Fazekaszug from stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses
Diachronic changes in diet in medieval Berlin
The impact of social status and biological sex on diet at 10th century CE Hungarian sites from stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses
Modern methods for old data
Eating in prosperity
Stable isotope evidence for diet in early medieval Great Moravia (Czech Republic)
Cave funeral practices during the Roman and Migration Periods in the Cracow Upland, southern Poland
Isotopic evidence of diet variation at the transition between classical and post-classical times in Central Italy
Dietary reconstruction of the Moravian Lombard population (Kyjov, 5th–6th centuries AD, Czech Republic) through stable isotope analysis (δ13C, δ15N)
Isotope data in Migration Period archaeology
Killing Cattle –Age Selection of Cattle at Iron Age Central Places in Third–Eleventh Century AD Sweden based on Tooth Wear
Pig-Breeding Management in the Early Medieval Stronghold at Mikulčice (Eighth–Ninth Centuries, Czech Republic)
Increasing Mobility at the Neolithic/Bronze Age Transition - sulphur isotope evidence from Öland, Sweden
The role of drought during the Hunnic incursions into central-east Europe in the 4th and 5th c. CE
Social differentiation and land use at an Early Iron Age “princely seat”
The ‘Headless Romans’
Death in the Ice
Edafología, palinología y antropología física aplicadas a la arqueología ambiental
Identidades y ajuares en las necrópolis altomedievales. Estudios isotópicos del cementerio de San Martín de Dulantzi, Álava (siglos VI-X)
Stav izotopových výzkumů stravy, rezidenční mobility a zemědělského hospodaření populace Velké Moravy (9.–10. století)
To the Land or to the Sea”
The medieval dietary transition in the ecclesiastical centre of Stará Boleslav (9th-15th centuries AD, Czechia)
Chemical and isotopic analyses confirm dietary change marks the Early Medieval Slavic expansion into Central and Eastern Europe
Raně středověké pohřebiště v Přezleticích (okr. Praha-východ) / Early Medieval Burial Ground in Přezletice (Prague-East District)
Phenotypes and pathways
Two Migration Period Graves from Slatiňany, Chrudim District
Filling the gap
Resilience and local dietary adaptation in rural Poland, 1000–1400 CE
Dogs as Analogs in Stable Isotope-Based Human Paleodietary Reconstructions
Strontium isotopes of human remains from the San Martín de Dulantzi graveyard (Alegría-Dulantzi, Álava) and population mobility in the Early Middle Ages
A review of the practice of intentional cranial modification in Eurasia during the Migration Period (4th – 7th c AD)
Bed Burials in Early Medieval Europe
Sons of athelings given to the earth’
Comportements alimentaires en Gaule du Nord
Radiocarbon Chronology and Paleodiet Studies on the Medieval Rural Site of Zaballa (Spain)
Tracing residential mobility during the Merovingian period
Shifting diet, shifting culture? A bioarchaeological approach to island dietary development on Iron‐Age Öland, Baltic Sea
Water consumption in Iron Age, Roman, and Early Medieval Croatia
Fringes of the empire
Changing cultures, changing cuisines
Human dietary δ 15 N intake
Diet in transitory society
Isotopic sourcing reveals changing subsistence, cultural diversity and biological correlates with palaeodiet in fourth- to seventh-century AD Bavaria
New Dietary Evidence on Medieval Rural Communities of the Basque Country (Spain) and Its Surroundings from Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Analyses
Palaeodietary reconstruction as an alternative approach to poorly preserved early medieval human bone assemblages
Early medieval Italian Alps
Dukes, elites, and commoners
The edge of the Empire
Social status in late medieval and early modern Brittany
Isotopic evidence for changing human mobility patterns after the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire at the Upper Rhine
Diet, sex, and social status in the Late Avar period
The influence of religious identity and socio-economic status on diet over time, an example from medieval France
Saint-Jean de Todon and Saint-Victor-la-Coste
What is on the menu in a Celtic town? Iron Age diet reconstructed at Basel-Gasfabrik, Switzerland
Dietary reconstruction in Migration Period Central Germany
Tracing early life histories from Roman times to the Medieval era
A canine surrogacy approach to human paleodietary bone chemistry
Lost in transition
Living and dying at thePortus Romae
The signal and the noise
Child Health in Five Early Medieval Irish Sites
Carbon Isotopes in Photosynthesis
Mortuary practices, society and ideology
C dating with the bomb peak
Postmortem preservation and alteration of in vivo bone collagen isotope ratios in relation to palaeodietary reconstruction
Nitrogen and carbon isotopic composition of bone collagen from marine and terrestrial animals
Alemannen und Franken
The Theme of “The Barbarian Invasions” in Late Antique and Modern Historiography
The history of crops and crop weeds in south-western Germany from the Neolithic period to modern times, as shown by archaeobotanical evidence
Early Weaning of Neolithic Domestic Cattle (Bercy, France) Revealed by Intra-tooth Variation in Nitrogen Isotope Ratios
New aspects of agriculture and diet of the early medieval period in central Europe
Millets across Eurasia
The history of cereals in the region of the former Duchy of Swabia (Herzogtum Schwaben) from the Roman to the Post-medieval period
Aspects of early medieval farming from sites in Mediterranean France
Stable strontium isotopes in human teeth and bone
Stable Isotope Analysis of Human and Faunal Remains from the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Berinsfield, Oxfordshire
Distribution patterns of cultivated plants in the Eastern Alps (Central Europe) during Iron Age
Stable Isotope Analysis Reveals Variations in Human Diet at the Poundbury Camp Cemetery Site
The isotopic composition of carbon and nitrogen in individual amino acids isolated from modern and fossil proteins
Diet, Status and Decomposition at Weingarten
Some theoretical aspects of isotope paleodiet studies
Nitrogen isotopes and the trophic level of humans in archaeology
Preparation and characterization of bone and tooth collagen for isotopic analysis
Prehistoric Graves as a Source of Information
The Cultivation of Millet in Roman Italy
Stable isotope analyses in human nutritional ecology
Trans‐Atlantic slavery
Stable isotope evidence for the consumption of millet and other plants in Bronze Age Italy
Isotopic and dental evidence for infant and young child feeding practices in an imperial Roman skeletal sample
Investigations into the effect of diet on modern human hair isotopic values
Collagen turnover in the adult femoral mid‐shaft
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of human and animal diet in Africa
Trophic level isotopic enrichment of carbon and nitrogen in bone collagen
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses of the underclass at the colonial Cape of Good Hope in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Local or nonlocal? A research of strontium isotope ratios of teeth and bones on skeletal remains with artificial deformed skulls
Diet and social status during the La Tène period in Bohemia
| Unique citing works | 66 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 64 |