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First Experience of Using Isotope Analysis to Establish the Diet of People and Domestic Animals in Ancient Coastal Settlements of the Kerch Peninsula

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Abstract

The results of studying the bone tissue samples of humans and domestic pigs from some ancient monuments of the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea are given. The diets of humans and animals are determined by the content of carbon and nitrogen isotopes in their bones at the time of death. The study is conducted using a DELTA V mass spectrometer, an elemental analyzer, and devices for their connection. It is revealed that the inhabitants of ancient settlements barely ate any sea fish. It was used as a food for pigs only occasionally.

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  1. Institute of Material Culture History, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    A. K. Kasparov & O. V. Lokhova

  2. Karpinsky All-Russia Research Institute of Geology, St. Petersburg, Russia

    K. I. Lokhov

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  1. A. K. Kasparov
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Kasparov, A.K., Lokhova, O.V. & Lokhov, K.I. First Experience of Using Isotope Analysis to Establish the Diet of People and Domestic Animals in Ancient Coastal Settlements of the Kerch Peninsula. Nanotechnol Russia 17, 684–690 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S263516762205007X

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