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Authors: | Romboni, Marco* Arienzo, Ilenia* Di Vito, Mauro Antonio* Lubritto, Carmine* Piochi, Monica* di Cicco, Maria Rosa* Rickards, Olga* Rolfo, Mario Federico* Sevink, Jan* De Angelis, Flavio* Alessandri, Luca* |
Title: | La Sassa cave: Isotopic evidence for Copper Age and Bronze Age population dynamics in Central Italy | Journal: | PLoS one | Series/Report no.: | 7/18(2023) | Publisher: | Public Library of Science | Issue Date: | 2023 | DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0288637 | Keywords: | La Sassa cave (Central Italy) population dynamics nitrogen isotope strontium isotope |
Abstract: | This study focuses on the changes in diet and mobility of people buried in the La Sassa cave (Latium, Central Italy) during the Copper and Bronze Ages to contribute to the understanding of the complex contemporary population dynamics in Central Italy. To that purpose, carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses, strontium isotope analyses, and FT-IR evaluations were performed on human and faunal remains from this cave. The stable isotope analyses evidence a slight shift in diet between Copper and Bronze Age individuals, which becomes prominent in an individual, dating from a late phase, when the cave was mainly used as a cultic shelter. This diachronic study documents an increased dietary variability due to the introduction of novel resources in these protohistoric societies, possibly related to the southward spread of northern human groups into Central Italy. This contact between different cultures is also testified by the pottery typology found in the cave. The latter shows an increase in cultural intermingling starting during the beginning of the middle Bronze Age. The local mobility during this phase likely involved multiple communities scattered throughout an area of a few kilometers around the cave, which used the latter as a burial site both in the Copper and Bronze ages. |
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