Western Mediterranean prehistory

Stable Isotopes and Diet in Western Mediterranean Prehistory... 

If we are to correctly interpret the isotopic values in dietary terms in the context of western Mediterranean prehistory, we need to consider the specific resources available and especially those that archaeology has documented as being used as food items. Our focus is on later prehistory. 

Diet and stable isotopes, western Mediterranean prehistory, 118-120 Dietary reconstruction from coprolites, human mtDNA extraction, Hinds Cave, Texas, 81 Dietary research through stable isotopes, principles and interpretation, 115-117 Dikgatlampi workings, Botswana, specularite sourcing, 465 Discriminant function analysis, INAA geochemical data, 466,469-477/... 

In conclusion, high-resolution provenance studies of western Mediterranean obsidian artifacts produce more detailed information on Early Neolithic exchange patterns than can studies which only attribute artifacts at the island level. This was a time when an agricultural way of life was first introduced and the Mediterranean islands were first widely settled. Obsidian, as the most visible indicator in the archaeological record of intercultural contact, is a critical material for the reconstruction of this most important transition in human prehistory. 

Van Strydonck, M. Dupas, M., (1991). The classification and dating of lime mortars by chemical analysis and radiocarbon dating a review, in Second Deya International Conference of Prehistory recent developments in western Mediterranean prdtistory archaeological techniques, technology, and theory, Waldren, W.H., Ensenyat, J.A. Kennard, R.C. (Eds.), p>p. S43, Tempus Reparatum ISBN 0860547272, Oxford... 

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