1. Long-Term Resilience of Late Holocene Coastal Subsistence System in Southeastern South America
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Colin Smith, Levy Figuti, Matthew J. Collins, Michael Eustace, André Carlo Colonese, Andy Gledhill, Paulo DeBlasis, Sabine Eggers, Oliver E. Craig, Deisi Scunderlick Eloy de Farias, Alexandre Lucquin, Alice Mora, Cláudia Regina Plens, Raquel de Almeida Rocha Ponzoni, Veronica Wesolowski, Y. Hancock, Collins, Matthew [0000-0003-4226-5501], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Ceramics ,Time Factors ,Environmental change ,Economics ,Economic Models ,Social Sciences ,lcsh:Medicine ,Biochemistry ,HOLOCENO ,Analytical Chemistry ,Behavioral Ecology ,Apatites ,Amino Acids ,lcsh:Science ,Holocene ,Isotope analysis ,Liquid Chromatography ,2. Zero hunger ,Carbon Isotopes ,Multidisciplinary ,Ecology ,Geography ,Chromatographic Techniques ,Biogeochemistry ,Lipids ,Chemistry ,Archaeology ,Isotope Labeling ,Physical Sciences ,Collagen ,Brazil ,Research Article ,Conservation of Natural Resources ,Research and Analysis Methods ,Archaeometry ,Bone and Bones ,Prehistory ,Chemical Analysis ,Animals ,Humans ,Ecosystem ,14. Life underwater ,Domestication ,Gas Chromatography ,Chemical Ecology ,Nitrogen Isotopes ,Ecology and Environmental Sciences ,lcsh:R ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Proteins ,Subsistence agriculture ,Bayes Theorem ,15. Life on land ,Geochemistry ,Earth Sciences ,lcsh:Q ,Pottery ,Tissue Proteins - Abstract
Isotopic and molecular analysis on human, fauna and pottery remains can provide valuable new insights into the diets and subsistence practices of prehistoric populations. These are crucial to elucidate the resilience of social-ecological systems to cultural and environmental change. Bulk collagen carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis of 82 human individuals from mid to late Holocene Brazilian archaeological sites (∼6,700 to ∼1,000 cal BP) reveal an adequate protein incorporation and, on the coast, the continuation in subsistence strategies based on the exploitation of aquatic resources despite the introduction of pottery and domesticated plant foods. These results are supported by carbon isotope analysis of single amino acid extracted from bone collagen. Chemical and isotopic analysis also shows that pottery technology was used to process marine foods and therefore assimilated into the existing subsistence strategy. Our multidisciplinary results demonstrate the resilient character of the coastal economy to cultural change during the late Holocene in southern Brazil.
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- 2014
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