Stable isotopic analysis of human and faunal remains from the Incipient Chulmun (Neolithic) shell midden site of Ando Island, Korea

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• 作者：Kyungcheol Choy^a ; ^b ; Deogim An^c ; ^{adi@hanseo.ac.kr} ; Michael P. Richards^a ; ^d
• 关键词：Prehistoric subsistence ; Carbon isotopes ; Nitrogen isotopes ; Palaeodiet ; Chulmun (Neolithic) ; Korea
• 刊名：Journal of Archaeological Science
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：137_03054403
• 类别：soc
• 出版时间：July, 2012
• 卷：39
• 期：7
• 页码：2091-2097
• 文件大小：1099 K

摘要

We analyzed stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of human and animal remains from the Ando shell midden, South Korea. The Ando site is a rare Incipient Chulmun (Neolithic) site (ca. 6000-5000聽BC), which contains well-preserved human and animal bones in shell mounds. The stable isotope results for humans (average 未¹³C聽=聽鈭?3.5聽卤聽0.5鈥?and 未¹⁵N聽=聽15.2聽卤聽0.5鈥? indicate that Ando people in the Incipient Chulmun period strongly depended on marine resources. There were no isotopic differences between humans of different sex and age at this site. We compared our data with other previous published isotopic data from the Chulmun sites and found that the Ando people had similar isotope values to the southern Chulmun people (Tongsamdong and Daepo), but different isotopic ratios than the western Chulmun people (Daejukri and Konamri). These results indicate that marine foods were the main food resources in the southern coastal regions, but not in the western coastal regions in Chulmun Korea.