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The prehistoric populations of Ukraine: stable isotope studies of fisher-hunter-forager and pastoralist-incipient farmer dietary pathways
Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies. (Archaeology)
Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies. (Archaeology)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6054-3651
2020 (English)In: Prehistoric Ukraine: from the first hunters to the first farmers / [ed] Malmcolm C. Lillie and Inna D. Potekhina, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020, p. 283-307Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This chapter outlines the results of stable isotope studies of the prehistoric populations of Ukraine across the earlier to middle Holocene, ca. 10,000–3500 cal BC. The data are consistent with the continued exploitation of fisher-hunter-forager subsistence strategies across the periods studied with variations occurring in the relative amount of freshwater proteins consumed across the Epipalaeolithic through to Eneolithic periods. During the Neolithic and later periods there is a clear increase in the frequency of domesticates in zooarchaeological assemblages, indicative of an increasing emphasis on pastoralism and animal husbandry. However, the visibility of domestic fauna in dietary isotope studies is difficult to determine due to the paucity of faunal remains available for analysis. The key exception to the dominant subsistence trends appears to relate to the Trypillia farming culture, where agro-pastoralism is evidenced, and in this context isotope data from the site of Verteba Cave in western Ukraine is discussed. The majority of isotope data considered here are obtained from the cemeteries located in the Dnieper River valley, particularly those focused on the rapids, and its tributaries.

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Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020. p. 283-307
Keywords [en]
Ukraine, Prehistory, Diet, Stable Isotopes
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History and Archaeology
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Archaeology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-175200ISBN: 9781789254587 (print)ISBN: 9781789254594 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-175200DiVA, id: diva2:1469219
Available from: 2020-09-21 Created: 2020-09-21 Last updated: 2020-10-05Bibliographically approved

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