Temporal changes in diet: a stable isotope analysis of late Iron Age and Roman Dorset,Britain |
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| Authors: | Rebecca C Redfern Christine Hamlin Nancy Beavan Athfield |
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| Institution: | 1. Centre for Human Bioarchaeology, Museum of London, 150 London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN, UK;2. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 290 Sabin Hall, P.O. Box 413, 3413 N. Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA;3. National Isotope Centre, GNS Science, 30 Gracefield Road, Gracefield, Lower Hutt 5010, PO Box 31312, Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand |
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| Abstract: | This study investigates the relationship between diet and cultural change in late Iron Age and Romano-British populations from Dorset, England (1st century BC to the early 5th century AD). Dorset was the only region in Britain to exhibit continuity in inhumation burial rites through these periods and a wide array of environmental, archaeological and material culture evidence is available there. A sample of N = 77 human adult and N = 17 faunal rib samples were utilized for carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis to test the hypothesis that Romanization of the diet would result in greater dietary variation. |
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| Keywords: | Stable isotope Carbon Nitrogen Diet Roman Late Iron Age Britain |
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