Contribution to Mediterranean medieval dietary studies: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data of marine and catadromous fish from Provence (9th–14th CE)
Whilst marine resources are one of the pillars of the Mediterranean diet, their mode of acquisition and subsequent consumption by medieval populations in southern France are still not well known. Throughout Europe, bioarchaeological techniques, however, are beginning to reveal hitherto unknown aspec...
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| author | Leïa Mion Tatiana André Anne Mailloux Myriam Sternberg Arturo Morales Muniz Eufrasia Rosello-Izquierdo Laura Llorente Rodríguez Estelle Herrscher |
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| description | Whilst marine resources are one of the pillars of the Mediterranean diet, their mode of acquisition and subsequent consumption by medieval populations in southern France are still not well known. Throughout Europe, bioarchaeological techniques, however, are beginning to reveal hitherto unknown aspects of these practices both dating to the medieval period as well as other periods of history and prehistory. This study involved the stable isotope analysis of five marine and catadromous taxa from three medieval sites in Provence, France: ''rue Frédéric Mistral'' at Fos-sur-Mer, ''le Château'' at Hyères and ''Couvent des Dominicaines - Parking/Collège Mignet'' at Aix-en-Provence. In total, 127 specimens, including Anguilla anguilla, Dicentrarchus labrax, Sparus aurata, Diplodus sargus and Mugilidae were subjected to carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis. The study provides a crucial and unprecedented point of reference of the carbon and nitrogen isotopic variability of one of the main dietary resources in the Mediterranean world, fish. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-440b273b92c4457c8d0161a3b63a8fa92022-12-21T23:33:23ZengElsevierData in Brief2352-34092022-04-0141108016Contribution to Mediterranean medieval dietary studies: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data of marine and catadromous fish from Provence (9th–14th CE)Leïa Mion0Tatiana André1Anne Mailloux2Myriam Sternberg3Arturo Morales Muniz4Eufrasia Rosello-Izquierdo5Laura Llorente Rodríguez6Estelle Herrscher7Aix Marseille University, CNRS, Minist Culture, LAMPEA, Aix-en-Provence, France; Corresponding author.Aix Marseille University, CNRS, LA3M, Aix-en-Provence, FranceAix Marseille University, CNRS, LA3M, Aix-en-Provence, FranceAix Marseille University, CNRS, Minist Culture, CCJ, Aix-en-Provence, FranceLaboratorio de Arqueozoología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, SpainLaboratorio de Arqueozoología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, SpainLaboratorio de Arqueozoología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; Laboratory for Archaezoological Studies, Faculty of Archaeology, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, the NetherlandAix Marseille University, CNRS, Minist Culture, LAMPEA, Aix-en-Provence, FranceWhilst marine resources are one of the pillars of the Mediterranean diet, their mode of acquisition and subsequent consumption by medieval populations in southern France are still not well known. Throughout Europe, bioarchaeological techniques, however, are beginning to reveal hitherto unknown aspects of these practices both dating to the medieval period as well as other periods of history and prehistory. This study involved the stable isotope analysis of five marine and catadromous taxa from three medieval sites in Provence, France: ''rue Frédéric Mistral'' at Fos-sur-Mer, ''le Château'' at Hyères and ''Couvent des Dominicaines - Parking/Collège Mignet'' at Aix-en-Provence. In total, 127 specimens, including Anguilla anguilla, Dicentrarchus labrax, Sparus aurata, Diplodus sargus and Mugilidae were subjected to carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis. The study provides a crucial and unprecedented point of reference of the carbon and nitrogen isotopic variability of one of the main dietary resources in the Mediterranean world, fish.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235234092200227XPaleodietStable isotopeMedievalMarine resources |
| spellingShingle | Leïa Mion Tatiana André Anne Mailloux Myriam Sternberg Arturo Morales Muniz Eufrasia Rosello-Izquierdo Laura Llorente Rodríguez Estelle Herrscher Contribution to Mediterranean medieval dietary studies: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data of marine and catadromous fish from Provence (9th–14th CE) Data in Brief Paleodiet Stable isotope Medieval Marine resources |
| title | Contribution to Mediterranean medieval dietary studies: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data of marine and catadromous fish from Provence (9th–14th CE) |
| title_full | Contribution to Mediterranean medieval dietary studies: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data of marine and catadromous fish from Provence (9th–14th CE) |
| title_fullStr | Contribution to Mediterranean medieval dietary studies: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data of marine and catadromous fish from Provence (9th–14th CE) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contribution to Mediterranean medieval dietary studies: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data of marine and catadromous fish from Provence (9th–14th CE) |
| title_short | Contribution to Mediterranean medieval dietary studies: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data of marine and catadromous fish from Provence (9th–14th CE) |
| title_sort | contribution to mediterranean medieval dietary studies stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data of marine and catadromous fish from provence 9th 14th ce |
| topic | Paleodiet Stable isotope Medieval Marine resources |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235234092200227X |
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