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Touch not the fish: the Mesolithic-Neolithic change of diet and its significance (2006)
Journal Article
Richards, M., & Schulting, R. (2006). Touch not the fish: the Mesolithic-Neolithic change of diet and its significance. Antiquity, 80(308), 444-456. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00093765

Stable isotope analysis has startled the archaeological community by showing a rapid and widespread change from a marine to terrestrial diet (ie from fish to domesticated plants and animals) as people moved from a Mesolithic to a Neolithic culture. T... Read More about Touch not the fish: the Mesolithic-Neolithic change of diet and its significance.

Palaeodiets of Humans and Fauna at the Spanish Mesolithic Site of El Collado (2006)
Journal Article
Garcia Guixé, E., Richards, M., & Subira, M. (2006). Palaeodiets of Humans and Fauna at the Spanish Mesolithic Site of El Collado. Current Anthropology, 47(3), 549-556. https://doi.org/10.1086/504170

The first human stable isotope results from the Spanish Levant, from the Mesolithic (ca. 7500 BP, Mesolithic IIIA phase) site of El Collado (near Oliva, Valencia) provide evidence for the consumption of marine protein by humans, estimated at approxim... Read More about Palaeodiets of Humans and Fauna at the Spanish Mesolithic Site of El Collado.

Diet in the Iron Age cemetery population at Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire, UK: carbon and nitrogen stable isotope evidence (2006)
Journal Article
Jay, M., & Richards, M. (2006). Diet in the Iron Age cemetery population at Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire, UK: carbon and nitrogen stable isotope evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33(5), 653-662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2005.09.020

This paper reports d13C and d15N values for human and animal bone collagen from the middle Iron Age site at Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire, UK. The data indicate a human diet which was high in animal protein, with no evidence for any significant marin... Read More about Diet in the Iron Age cemetery population at Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire, UK: carbon and nitrogen stable isotope evidence.

Stratégies de subsistance et analyse culturelle de populations néolithiques de Ligurie: Approche par l’étude isotopique (δ13C et δ15N) des restes osseux (2006)
Journal Article
Le Bras-Goude, G., Binder, D., Formicola, V., Duday, H., Couture-Veschambre, C., Hublin, J., & Richards, M. (2006). Stratégies de subsistance et analyse culturelle de populations néolithiques de Ligurie: Approche par l’étude isotopique (δ13C et δ15N) des restes osseux. Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris (En ligne), 18(1-2), 43-53

For the last ten millennia humans have learned how to manage and produce their own food resources. In Liguria, the exploitation of the marine and coastal environment as well as the acquisition and use of agriculture and pastoralism at the time of Neo... Read More about Stratégies de subsistance et analyse culturelle de populations néolithiques de Ligurie: Approche par l’étude isotopique (δ13C et δ15N) des restes osseux.

Stable isotope palaeodiet study of humans and fauna from the multi-period (Iron Age, Viking and Late Medieval) site of Newark Bay, Orkney (2006)
Journal Article
Richards, M., Fuller, B., & Molleson, T. (2006). Stable isotope palaeodiet study of humans and fauna from the multi-period (Iron Age, Viking and Late Medieval) site of Newark Bay, Orkney. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33(1), 122-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2005.07.003

We report here on stable carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements of human and faunal bone collagen from the Iron Age, Viking Age, and Late Medieval site of Newark Bay, Orkney, Scotland. We found a wide range of results for humans in both δ13C (−15.4... Read More about Stable isotope palaeodiet study of humans and fauna from the multi-period (Iron Age, Viking and Late Medieval) site of Newark Bay, Orkney.