Six centuries of adaptation to a challenging island environment: AMS 14C dating and stable isotopic analysis of pre-Columbian human remains from the Bahamian archipelago reveal dietary trends

Six centuries of adaptation to a challenging island environment: AMS 14C dating and stable isotopic analysis of pre-Columbian human remains from the Bahamian archipelago reveal dietary trends

The limestone islands of the Bahamian archipelago provide a challenging environment for human settlement, one that was not taken up until after AD 700. The analysis of human skeletal remains offers new insights into how this challenge was met. A substantial program of AMS 14C dating on pre-Columbian...

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Main Authors: Brock, F. (Author), Delancy, K. (Author), Devièse, T. (Author), Higham, T. (Author), Keegan, W. (Author), Ostapkowicz, J. (Author), Pateman, M. (Author), Pouncett, J. (Author), Ramsey, C.B (Author), Schulting, R.J (Author), Snoeck, C. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2021
Subjects:
adaptive management
archaeological evidence
archipelago
Carbon
Caribbean
Climate change
ecosystem resilience
Greater Antilles
horticulture
human resource
Human settlements
Initial settlement
island biogeography
Island environments
Isotope analysis
Isotopes
Isotopic analysis
Lime
Marine biology
Medieval Warm Period
Natural resources
nitrogen
Nitrogen
Pleistocene
Resilience
resource depletion
Resource depletion
Resource over-exploitation
skeletal remains
Strontium isotopes
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