Identidades y ajuares en las necrópolis altomedievales. Estudios isotópicos del cementerio de San Martín de Dulantzi, Álava (siglos VI-X)

Castillo, Juan Antonio Quirós; Uriarte, Miguel Loza; Lorenzo, Javier Niso

doi:10.3989/aespa.086.013.012

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“…Nitrogen and carbon isotope analyses carried out on several inhumations in the cemetery suggested that they, or at least some of them, belonged to a local elite that used the temple as a privileged burial site (Quirós et al . 2013, 228; Loza and Niso 2016, 104). Similar circumstances apply to grave 18b of the necropolis of Cubillejo de la Sierra (Guadalajara), in which a woman had a diet close to that of the other women analysed, but with a higher protein intake (Cerdeño et al .…”

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Baltic Amber in Hispania During Late Antiquity. Contacts, Networks and Exchange

Vallejo‐Casas,

Ripoll,

Sánchez Romero

et al. 2024

Oxford J Archaeology

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SummaryAmber is a material of great social value that has been identified at various archaeological sites on the Iberian peninsula dating to Late Antiquity. The objects, mostly necklace beads, have been discussed to date with limited results in relation to a small number of studies. This article presents the characterization by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) of 52 amber beads from four Late Antique necropolises in the province of Granada (south‐eastern Iberian peninsula): Cortijo del Chopo (Colomera), El Castillón (Montefrío), Marugán (Atarfe) and Fuente Santa (Loja). The results obtained demonstrate the Baltic origin of the amber at these sites and advance our knowledge of this type of product in Hispanic Late Antique funerary contexts.

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Baltic Amber in Hispania During Late Antiquity. Contacts, Networks and Exchange

Vallejo‐Casas,

Ripoll,

Sánchez Romero

et al. 2024

Oxford J Archaeology

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New Dietary Evidence on Medieval Rural Communities of the Basque Country (Spain) and Its Surroundings from Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Analyses: Social Insights, Diachronic Changes and Geographic Comparison

Lubritto

García-Collado

Ricci

et al. 2017

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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This paper presents the results of palaeodietary reconstruction based on stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis on bone collagen of five medieval rural populations from the Basque Country (northern Spain) spanning from 5 th to 15 th centuries AD. One hundred forty-seven human and 47 domestic faunal samples were successfully analysed with the objective of defining agrarian productive strategies and food consumption patterns. The results grouped the five sites in two clusters: on one side Zaballa and Treviño, whose inhabitants followed diets exclusively based on C 3 plants with significant intake of animal protein, and on the other, the populations from Aistra and Zornoztegi, who combined C 3 and C 4 plants and consumed lower amounts of animal protein. The isotopic values from Dulantzi were intermediate to these two groups. No differences were detected when individual status markers, such as grave goods, were available. Conversely, some restrictions on the access to certain food resources based on sex were uncovered. A relevant change in δ 13 C values was identified around 10 th century, a consequence of a shift in the consumption patterns of C 3 and C 4 plants. Finally, these Basque sites were compared with those of the medieval Iberian case studies available in the literature. This comparison made evident the distinctive nature of the diet of the Basque medieval rural contexts.

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