The first isotopic insight into the Bronze Age dietary transition in the area of present-day Czechia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023272%3A_____%2F25%3A10136730" target="_blank" >RIV/00023272:_____/25:10136730 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/67985912:_____/25:00639786 RIV/48511005:_____/25:N0000004 RIV/60076658:12310/25:43910779 RIV/00216208:11110/25:10500394
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X25002846?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X25002846?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105251" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105251</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The first isotopic insight into the Bronze Age dietary transition in the area of present-day Czechia
Original language description
In order to investigate dietary changes during the Middle Ages, carbon and nitrogen isotopes were measured in 97 humans and 14 animals from the medieval centre of Stara Boleslav, together with a comparative dataset of 28 humans from Prague - Loretanske Square. The Stara Boleslav dataset was divided into three contexts based on grave location (abandoned unknown Early Medieval church, and collegiate chapter basilica) and chronology (pre- and post-1150 CE phases of the basilica burial ground). The average human delta 13C value was -19.2 +/- 0.4 %o and the average delta 15N value was 10.3 +/- 1.2 %o. There were statistically significant differences in delta 15N values between all contexts with the exception of the abandoned church and the Prague - Loretanske Square cemeteries, which showed similarly low delta 15N values. The post-1150 CE phase of the basilica burial ground showed the highest delta 15N values, while the pre-1150 phase of the basilica burial ground occupied the intermediate position. The results show the almost complete absence of millet in the diet of the studied dataset, suggesting that a dietary dichotomy in millet consumption was present in the 11th century population, with the inhabitants of the centres consuming less millet than observed in previously published rural datasets. The increase in the consumption of animal products and/or fish was pronounced in the most recent phase of the dataset, after 1150 CE. Some evidence of this pattern was present even earlier, but only in the environment closely linked to the ecclesiastical centre, i.e. the basilica.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004593" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004593: Ready for the future: understanding long-term resilience of the human culture (RES-HUM)</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
ISSN
2352-409X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
66
Issue of the periodical within the volume
October
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
1-14
UT code for WoS article
999
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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