Lapita subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns in the community of Teouma (Efate, Vanuatu)
Valentin Frédérique, R. Buckley Hallie, Herrscher Estelle, Kinaston Rebecca, Bedford Stuart, Spriggs Matthew, Hawkins Stuart, Neal Ken. 2010. .
ARTICLE, (2010 ) - PUBLISHEDVERSION - English (en-GB)
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HAL CCSD, Elsevier
Sujet
Lapita Vanuatu Subsistence strategies Diet Bone collagen Carbon isotopes Nitrogen isotopes, [SHS.ANTHRO-BIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology
Domaines
Archéologie, Anthropologie, Sciences Sociales, Sciences humaines
Description
The subsistence strategies of the Lapita populations (3100-2800 BP), the first colonisers of the pristine environments of the islands of Eastern Melanesia and Western Polynesia, have been a matter of ongoing debate for decades. Opinions have ranged between the two extremes of Lapita colonisers being either characterised as highly mobile foragers to fully horticultural communities. To further address the question, this paper presents stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic data obtained from analyses of human and animal collagen samples from the site of Teouma (Efate, Vanuatu) dated to between c. 3000-2500 BP. The isotopic signatures obtained from 28 samples (23 human and 5 animal), interpreted in combination with isotopic information from several coastal and insular environments, suggest a diet primarily made up of terrestrially derived animal protein with lesser contributions from vegetable produce and inshore marine species. Comparisons linking the isotopic data gleaned from the Teouma individuals and Lapita subsistence patterns reconstructed through archaeozoological and archaeobotanical remains support the hypothesis of a mixed economy, that included terrestrial foraging, inshore marine exploitation and a low level of food production for at least some of the earliest Lapita colonists in Vanuatu.
Auteurs
Valentin, Frédérique, R. Buckley, Hallie, Herrscher, Estelle, Kinaston, Rebecca, Bedford, Stuart, Spriggs, Matthew, Hawkins, Stuart, Neal, Ken
Contributeurs
Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité (ArScAn) ; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Otago [Dunedin, Nouvelle-Zélande], UMR 6578 : Anthropologie Bio-Culturelle (UAABC) ; Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Australian National University (ANU), Isolytix ; Isolytix
Sources
ISSN: 0305-4403, EISSN: 1095-9238, Journal of Archaeological Science, https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00592063, Journal of Archaeological Science, 2010, 37 (8), pp.1820-1829. ⟨10.1016/j.jas.2010.01.039⟩
Relation
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.jas.2010.01.039
Couverture
Vanuatu, Melanesia
