A complex Neolithic economy: isotope evidence for the circulation of cattle and sheep in the TRB of western Sweden |
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| Authors: | K-G Sjögren T Douglas Price |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Historical Studies, Göteborg University, Renströmsgatan 5, Box 200, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden;2. Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53711, USA |
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| Abstract: | We report here the results of strontium, oxygen and carbon isotope analysis of teeth from domestic animals at two Neolithic settlement sites in Falbygden, Sweden. The main result is the high mobility of domestic animals, particularly of cattle but also of sheep. More than half of the analysed cattle teeth show strontium isotope signals indicating that they were raised in an area of Precambrian rock, outside the sedimentary Cambro-Silurian rocks found in Falbygden. This is in marked contrast to pigs, which were mostly local to Falbygden. The mobility of cattle is much higher than that of humans, for which the frequency of immigrants is about 25%. |
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| Keywords: | Neolithic Sweden Falbygden Economy Mobility Cattle Strontium isotopes Oxygen isotopes Carbon isotopes |
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