Roots of diversity in a Linearbandkeramik community: isotope evidence at Aiterhofen (Bavaria, Germany)

• Autores: Penny Bickle, Daniela Hofmann, R. Alexander Bentley, Robert Hedges, Julie Hamilton, Fernando Laiginhas, Geoff Nowell, D. Graham Pearson, Gisela Grupe, Alasdair Whittle
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 85, Nº 330, 2011, págs. 1243-1258
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The early Neolithic in northern Central Europe ought to be the theatre in which incoming farmers meet local hunter-gatherers, with greater or lesser impact. By way of contrast, the authors use isotope analysis in a cemetery beside the Danube to describe a peaceful, well-integrated community with a common diet and largely indigenous inhabitants. Men and women may have had different mobility strategies, but the isotopes did not signal special origins or diverse food-producing roles. Other explanations attend the variations in the burial rites of individuals and their distribution into cemetery plots.