scholarly journals Pastoralism and Emergent Complex Settlement in the Middle Bronze Age, Azerbaijan: isotopic analyses of mobility strategies in transformation

2019 ◽  
Vol 171 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-141
Author(s):  
Selin E. Nugent
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Mobility Strategies ◽  
Isotopic Analyses ◽  
Middle Bronze Age

scholarly journals Isotopic evidence for population dynamics in the Central Italian Copper Age and Bronze Age.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Romboni ◽  
Ilenia Arienzo ◽  
Mauro Antonio Di Vito ◽  
Carmine Lubritto ◽  
Monica Piochi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Copper Age ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
The North ◽  
Regional Dynamics ◽  
Isotopic Analyses ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
C And N

The mobility patterns in the Italian peninsula during prehistory are still relatively unknown. The excavation of the Copper Age and Bronze Age deposits in La Sassa cave (Sonnino, Italy) allowed to broaden the knowledge about some local and regional dynamics. We employed a multi-disciplinary approach, including stable (carbon and nitrogen, C and N, respectively) and radiogenic (strontium, Sr) isotopes analyses and the identification of the cultural traits in the material culture to identify mobility patterns that took place in the region. The Sr isotopic analyses on the human bones show that in the Copper Age and at the beginning of the Bronze Age, the cave was used as a burial place by different villages, perhaps spread in a radius of no more than 5 km. Stable isotopes analyses suggest the introduction of C4 plants in the diet of the Middle Bronze Age (MBA) communities in the area. Remarkably, in the same period, the material culture shows increasing influxes coming from the North. This evidence is consistent with the recent genomic findings tracing the arrival of people carrying a Steppe-related ancestry in Central Italy in MBA.

scholarly journals The place of millet in food globalization during Late Prehistory as evidenced by new bioarchaeological data from the Caucasus

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Martin ◽  
Erwan Messager ◽  
Giorgi Bedianashvili ◽  
Nana Rusishvili ◽  
Elena Lebedeva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Setaria Italica ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Animal Bones ◽  
Isotopic Analyses ◽  
Significant Enrichment ◽  
Middle Bronze Age

AbstractTwo millets, Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica, were domesticated in northern China, around 6000 BC. Although its oldest evidence is in Asia, possible independent domestication of these species in the Caucasus has often been proposed. To verify this hypothesis, a multiproxy research program (Orimil) was designed to detect the first evidence of millet in this region. It included a critical review of the occurrence of archaeological millet in the Caucasus, up to Antiquity; isotopic analyses of human and animal bones and charred grains; and radiocarbon dating of millet grains from archaeological contexts dated from the Early Bronze Age (3500–2500 BC) to the 1st Century BC. The results show that these two cereals were cultivated during the Middle Bronze Age (MBA), around 2000–1800 BC, especially Setaria italica which is the most ancient millet found in Georgia. Isotopic analyses also show a significant enrichment in 13C in human and animal tissues, indicating an increasing C4 plants consumption at the same period. More broadly, our results assert that millet was not present in the Caucasus in the Neolithic period. Its arrival in the region, based on existing data in Eurasia, was from the south, without excluding a possible local domestication of Setaria italica.

Initial Results of the Stratigraphy and Chronology of the Tel Kabri Middle Bronze Age Palace

10.1553/s355 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 355-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Yasur-Landau ◽  
E.H. Cline ◽  
N. Goshen
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Initial Results
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