Dark, S. P. (2003). Dogs, a crane (not duck) and diet at Star Carr:. J Archaeol Sci 30 (10). Vol 30(10), pp. 1353-1356.
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Dogs, a crane (not duck) and diet at Star Carr: | |||||||||||
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a response to Schulting and Richards | |||||||||||
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J Archaeol Sci 30 (10) | |||||||||||
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Journal of Archaeological Science | |||||||||||
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30 (10) | |||||||||||
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1353 - 1356 | |||||||||||
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In a recent article in the same journal, Schulting and Richards (2002/787) present new carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of bones from two dogs (Canis familiaris) and a common crane (Grus grus) from the Early Mesolithic sites of Star Carr and Seamer Carr, in the Vale of Pickering, north-east England (Excavations at Star Carr (1954); The Mesolithic in Europe (1989) 218). These, they argue, undermine the author's previous suggestion (97/1334) that the 13C values for the Seamer dog obtained by Clutton-Brock and Noe-Nygaard (91/347) could be explained by consumption not of marine foods, as originally interpreted, but from a diet that included foods from the freshwater carbonate-rich lake. The author discusses Schulting and Richard's new results and concludes that neither of the Vale of Pickering dogs need necessarily have consumed marine foods. Furthermore, the author argues that the choice of a crane to test her suggestion that animals feeding on foods from the lake could have elevated 13C values is inappropriate because the diet of this bird is unlikely to have included a significant component of freshwater foods. The author concludes that Schulting and Richard's new data do not, therefore, provide evidence for seasonal movement of early Mesolithic human groups between the coast and the inland lake. | |||||||||||
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2003 | |||||||||||
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03 Feb 2004 |
