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Children feeding practices in the Danube Gorges at the advent of the Neolithic
Jovanović Jelena;
Goude Gwenaëlle;
Novak Mario;
Bedić Željka;
de Becdelievre Camille;
Stefanović Sofija
Examining individual life-histories provide a direct way to understand the mechanisms of population's adaptation to major ecological and socio-cultural changes. The Mesolithic-
Neolithic transformations offer a convenient frame to develop this bottom-up approach. The Neolithic transition, the passage from mobile foraging to sedentary farming, was a
major shift during human prehistory. Focusing on the Balkan region where Early Neolithic started around 6200 cal BC, this paper presents stable isotope results (carbon, nitrogen,
sulfur) of an intra-individual sampling strategy (data on bone and deciduous/permanent teeth) performed on 30 children from Mesolithic and Neolithic sites situated across
Serbia and Croatia. Results suggest significant differences in the feeding practices of Mesolithic and Neolithic children as well as regional differences in mother's dietary choices.
This study opens new horizons on the relationship between individuals subsistence strategies and the dynamic of the group, implying that these bio-cultural differences may
contribute to the important demographic changes observed at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition.
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- Publication date:
- July 1, 2018
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- Keyword(s):
- Neolithic, breastfeeding, isotopes
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European Commission:
- BIRTH - Births, mothers and babies: prehistoric fertility in the Balkans between 10000 – 5000 BC (640557)
- Meeting:
- 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists 2017 (EAA), Maastricht, The Netherlands, 30.08.-03.09.2017. (Session RECONSTRUCTING PREHISTORIC IDENTITIES AND LIFE HISTORIES THROUGH ISOTOPES)
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