Journal
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages 773-780Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2007.06.009
Keywords
early medieval period; food culture; fish; diet; stable isotopes; pottery-use; lipid residues
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This paper is a presentation of a comparison between prehistoric food culture signals obtained through analyses of lipid food residues in pottery, i.e. pottery-use, from settlement remains on one hand and bone chemical analyses of human skeletal remains from an adjacent and contemporary cemetery on the other. The materials derive from the Early Medieval site Tuna in Alsike par., Uppland, Sweden. The results show a discrepancy between the two food signals and it is argued that pottery-use do not by necessity reflect everyday diet. But it is also argued that the integration of several food signals together with contextual archaeological data is a fruitful way to begin to understand the complexity of prehistoric cultures of food. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All fights reserved.
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