Palaeodiet and Infant Feeding in Coastal Arctic Settlements : Insights from stable isotope analysis of bone and dentine collagen and amino acids

• Main Author: Harris, Alison
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; palaeodiet; Inuit; Yup’ik; infant feeding; domestic dogs; amino acids; collagen; stable isotopes; maintenance activities; gender; Archaeology; Arkeologi; Bering Sea; Canada; Greenland; Kamchatka Peninsula; inuit; Kamchatka; Subarctic; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-184659

This dissertation investigates the day-to-day activities that sustained human societies in the arctic and subarctic environments of North America and Siberia over the past 1500 years. Maintenance activities, such as food preparation, childcare, and the care of domestic animals, are commonly inflecte...