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The Late Woodland Diet on Nantucket Island and the Problem of Maize in Coastal New England

Little, Elizabeth A., Schoeninger, Margaret J.·1995·American Antiquity
DOI 10.2307/282145
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Carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of (1) bone collagen from six burials of the Late Woodland Period at Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, and (2) a wide range of potential dietary materials provide data for evaluating coastal diets. Archaeological and historical data give evidence for the availability and use of dietary items. The bases of the food chains and trophic levels define the possible food groups: terrestrial C 3 and C 4 plants and their consumers, marine C 3 and C 4-like plants and their consumers, and marine carnivores. From these data, computer analysis of multiple linear mixing equations relating isotope ratios of human bone collagen to those of dietary food groups shows allowable ranges of these food groups in the diet. The results argue for a diet of 40–65 percent oceanic animals, with the rest consisting of substantial amounts of animals from salt marsh and eelgrass meadows or of maize, and minor amounts of C3 plants and their consumers.

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Authors
Little, E. A., & Schoeninger, M. J.
Venue
American Antiquity
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1995-04
Volume
60
Issue
2
Pages
351-368
ISSN
  • 0002-7316
  • 2325-5064
DOI
10.2307/282145
Cited by
36
References
46
Language
en
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 7965 d)

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