[Dietary behavior of the Middle Ages in Grenoble: application of isotopic biogeochemistry of the Saint-Laurent cemetery (XIIIth-XVth centuries, Isère, France)].
Isotopic analysis of 13C and 15N of 47 bones from Saint-Laurent de Grenoble cemetery (Grenoble, Isère), from the end of medieval period (XIIIth-XVth centuries AD) allowed to define the food status of animals with regard to the humans and to discuss the variability amongst adults. Adults who died young and those with small stature may have had diets poor in animal protein. The consumption of animal proteins was more important in the XVth than in the XIVth century and could illustrate a typical urban food economy providing its population with a more diversified diet than in rural areas.
Herrscher
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UMR 6569, laboratoire de préhistoire du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, institut de paléontologie humaine, 1, rue René-Panhard, 75013 Paris, France. estelleh@mnhn.fr
Bocherens
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Valentin
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Colardelle
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D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001827:Body Height; D002247:Carbon Isotopes / Q000032:analysis; D004032:Diet / Q000266:history*; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage; D005602:France; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D007554:Isotopes / Q000032:analysis*; D008460:Meat / Q000266:history; D009587:Nitrogen Isotopes / Q000032:analysis; D012424:Rural Population; D014505:Urban Population
D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D004044:Dietary Proteins; D007554:Isotopes; D009587:Nitrogen Isotopes