Wild at heart: Approaching Pitted Ware identity, economy and cosmology through stable isotopes in skeletal material from the Neolithic site Korsnäs in Eastern Central Sweden

• Published in: Journal of anthropological archaeology Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 281 - 297
• Main Authors: Fornander, Elin, Eriksson, Gunilla, Lidén, Kerstin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Inc 01.09.2008; Elsevier; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Anthropology; Archaeological dating; Archaeological Science; Archaeology; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologi; Arkeologiämnen; Carbon; Cosmology; Dentition; Diet; Environmental studies; Europe; Fauna; Fossils; Historisk-filosofiska ämnen; History and philosophy subjects; Human remains; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; Identity; Isotopes; laborativ arkeologi; Methodology and general studies; Middle Neolithic; Neolithic; Neolithic Age; Neolithic and chalcolithic; Nitrogen; North West Europe; Pitted Ware Culture; Prehistoric era; Prehistory and protohistory; Radiocarbon dating; Stable isotopes; Sulphur; Sweden; Neolithic; Sweden; Europe; Baltic sea; Sweden; Radiocarbon dating; Diet; Stable isotopes; Pitted Ware Culture; Nitrogen; Identity; Carbon; Sulphur; Middle Neolithic; Site; Subsistence strategy; Isotope; Fauna; Wild boar; Economy; Radiocarbon; Seal (animal); Cosmology; Skeleton; Bone; Dating; Isotope Analysis
• ISSN: 0278-4165; 1090-2686; 1090-2686
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2008.03.004

The Middle Neolithic Pitted Ware Culture on the Baltic Sea islands comprised a common identity distinguished, in part, by an almost exclusively marine diet. Based on evidence from the first stable isotope analysis on Pitted Ware skeletal material from the Eastern Central Swedish mainland, we suggest...