Carefully sourced, carefully managed: multi-isotopic analysis from Bronze and Iron Age equid teeth from Can Roqueta (Barcelona, Spain)

Equids played an important role in the development of communication in past societies, and were part of the exchanges between populations. The multi-isotopic study (strontium, carbon and oxygen isotopes) conducted on equid teeth from Bronze and Early Iron Age Can Roqueta suggests that animals origin...

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Autores: Valenzuela Lamas, Sílvia, Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Marta, Albizuri, Silvia, Pena González, Leopoldo David, Bosch, Delphine, Subirà, M. Eulàlia (Maria Eulàlia), López-Cachero, F. Javier, 1972-
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/199102
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/199102
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Èquids
Pasturatge
Isòtops
Primera edat del ferro
Edat del bronze
Restes d'animals (Arqueologia)
Sabadell (Catalunya)
Península Ibèrica
Équidés
Grazing
Isotopes
Hallstatt period
Bronze age
Animal remains (Archaeology)
Sabadell (Catalonia)
Iberian Peninsula
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Sumario:Equids played an important role in the development of communication in past societies, and were part of the exchanges between populations. The multi-isotopic study (strontium, carbon and oxygen isotopes) conducted on equid teeth from Bronze and Early Iron Age Can Roqueta suggests that animals originate from diverse locations and their diet and watering was carefully managed. The enriched oxygen and carbon isotopic ratios in equid teeth compared with other taxa from the same site supports that equids may have drunk from water basins, thus creating a 13 C and 18 O isotopic enrichment and partial covariance, similar to a 'lake' effect. This is the most comprehensive study on equid mobility in Iberia so far.