Storing fish?: a dog’s isotopic biography provides insight into Iron Age food preservation strategies in the Russian Arctic
Analysis of individual animal bodies can provide numerous useful insights in archeology, including how humans provisioned such animals, which in turn informs on a variety of other past behaviors such as human dietary patterns. In this study, we conducted stable carbon (δ(13)C) and nitrogen (δ(15)N)...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7410107 2023-05-15T15:00:03+02:00 Storing fish?: a dog’s isotopic biography provides insight into Iron Age food preservation strategies in the Russian Arctic Losey, Robert J. Guiry, Eric Nomokonova, Tatiana Gusev, Andrei V. Szpak, Paul 2020-08-03 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7410107/ https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01166-3 en eng Springer Berlin Heidelberg http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7410107/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01166-3 © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. CC-BY Archaeol Anthropol Sci Original Paper Text 2020 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01166-3 2020-08-23T00:21:55Z Analysis of individual animal bodies can provide numerous useful insights in archeology, including how humans provisioned such animals, which in turn informs on a variety of other past behaviors such as human dietary patterns. In this study, we conducted stable carbon (δ(13)C) and nitrogen (δ(15)N) isotope analysis of collagen and keratin from four types of tissues from a dog burial at the Ust’-Polui site in the Iamal region of Arctic Russia. Ust’-Polui is an Iron Age site located on the Lower Ob River, a major northern fishery characterized by extreme seasonal shifts in fish presence. During a 6-month period stretching over the coldest months of the year, fish are nearly entirely absent in the Lower Ob River. Despite this, the stable isotope compositions of the dog’s bone and dentine collagen and hair and nail keratin all indicate a monotonous diet focusing on local fish. This pattern indicates the dog was provisioned year-round with fish. This was likely accomplished by mass harvesting of fish using nets or traps. Such fish were then processed and frozen for consumption during the non-fishing season. These findings suggest that people in the Ust’-Polui region also relied to some extent on fish throughout the year. Stored fish likely provided a dietary buffer for uneven returns from reindeer and bird hunting, both of which also are well-evidenced at the site. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s12520-020-01166-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Text Arctic ob river PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 12 8 |
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Analysis of individual animal bodies can provide numerous useful insights in archeology, including how humans provisioned such animals, which in turn informs on a variety of other past behaviors such as human dietary patterns. In this study, we conducted stable carbon (δ(13)C) and nitrogen (δ(15)N) isotope analysis of collagen and keratin from four types of tissues from a dog burial at the Ust’-Polui site in the Iamal region of Arctic Russia. Ust’-Polui is an Iron Age site located on the Lower Ob River, a major northern fishery characterized by extreme seasonal shifts in fish presence. During a 6-month period stretching over the coldest months of the year, fish are nearly entirely absent in the Lower Ob River. Despite this, the stable isotope compositions of the dog’s bone and dentine collagen and hair and nail keratin all indicate a monotonous diet focusing on local fish. This pattern indicates the dog was provisioned year-round with fish. This was likely accomplished by mass harvesting of fish using nets or traps. Such fish were then processed and frozen for consumption during the non-fishing season. These findings suggest that people in the Ust’-Polui region also relied to some extent on fish throughout the year. Stored fish likely provided a dietary buffer for uneven returns from reindeer and bird hunting, both of which also are well-evidenced at the site. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s12520-020-01166-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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