Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1036213 | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2011 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis was undertaken on well-preserved human and animal skeletal remains from two sites in northern Ethiopia, both of which span the pre-Aksumite and Proto-Aksumite periods. The human remains constitute one individual collected at the site of Etchmare East which was directly radiocarbon dated to 2290 ± 50 BP. In addition 28 animal bone samples were excavated from the nearby site of Mezber, occupied from 2960 ± 60 to 1980 ± 50 BP. These results are consistent with those obtained in palaeoethnobotanical studies, which suggest that some members of pre/Proto-Aksumite society in the Horn of Africa had a diet that favoured the consumption of Near Eastern domesticates over indigenous crops.
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Authors
A. Catherine D’Andrea, Michael P. Richards, Laurence A. Pavlish, Shannon Wood, Andrea Manzo, H.S. Wolde-Kiros,