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A multi-proxy bioarchaeological approach reveals new trends in Bronze Age diet in Italy

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This study investigates changes in dietary practices and subsistence strategies in Bronze Age Italy integrating isotopic analyses with archaeobotanical and archaeozoological data. By investigating food habits, we contribute to reconstructing human lifestyles and highlighting possible links with the economic/social organization when the rise of stratified societies and new economic activities affected subsistence practices. Stable isotopes analyses in humans and animals were performed on 6 Italian sites dating from 2300 to 900 cal. BC, followed by a complete review of additional 19 sites, which forms the basis of a diachronic and geographic comparison for Bronze Age Italy. The geographic analysis shows a more varied diet in northern and central Italy, compared to the south. The diachronic analysis highlights the homogeneity of food habits during the Early Bronze Age, contrary to the later phases when an increase in dietary variability and a higher animal protein consumption are revealed. The Middle Bronze Age appears as a pivotal moment in protohistoric societies, a phase of transition. The consumption of different foodstuffs highlights the importance of cultural exchanges, resulting in a sort of “food globalization”, although environmental and climatic fluctuations could also have affected dietary patterns, favoring some crops over others.
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hal-03725501 , version 1 (19-06-2023)

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Alessandra Varalli, Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi, Gwenaëlle Goude. A multi-proxy bioarchaeological approach reveals new trends in Bronze Age diet in Italy. Scientific Reports, 2022, 12 (1), pp.12203. ⟨10.1038/s41598-022-15581-0⟩. ⟨hal-03725501⟩
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