Highlights We examine the diet of two Iron Age populations from the eastern Eurasian steppe. The proxies used are dental palaeopathology and stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes. These populations did not solely rely on their herds for subsistence. Millet and fish formed a substantial component of their diet. The subsistence strategies of steppe mobile pastoralists are highly complex.
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