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Stable isotopic analysis of human and animal diets from two pre-Aksumite/Proto-Aksumite archaeological sites in northern Ethiopia
Authors:A. Catherine D’Andrea  Michael P. Richards  Laurence A. Pavlish  Shannon Wood  Andrea Manzo  H.S. Wolde-Kiros
Affiliation:1. Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia Canada, V5A 1S6;2. Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, 6303 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z1;3. IsoTrace Radiocarbon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5A 1A7;4. Dipartimento di Studi e Ricerche su Africa e Paesi Arabi, University of Naples, “L’Orientale”, Naples, Italy;5. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig D-04103, Germany;6. Department of Anthropology, One Brookings Drive, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, USA;1. History Faculty, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, China;2. Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique – Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, (UMR 7209) CNRS/MNHN/SUs, CP56, 55 rue Buffon, Paris, 75005, France;3. Key Lab of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100044, China;4. Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 100710, China;1. Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688, USA;2. Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA;1. Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Johanna-Mestorf Strasse 2-6, D-24118, Germany;2. Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3115, USA;3. Archaeology Department, Ankara University, 06100, S?hh?ye, Ankara, Turkey
Abstract:Carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis was undertaken on well-preserved human and animal skeletal remains from two sites in northern Ethiopia, both of which span the pre-Aksumite and Proto-Aksumite periods. The human remains constitute one individual collected at the site of Etchmare East which was directly radiocarbon dated to 2290 ± 50 BP. In addition 28 animal bone samples were excavated from the nearby site of Mezber, occupied from 2960 ± 60 to 1980 ± 50 BP. These results are consistent with those obtained in palaeoethnobotanical studies, which suggest that some members of pre/Proto-Aksumite society in the Horn of Africa had a diet that favoured the consumption of Near Eastern domesticates over indigenous crops.
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