@article{336e8b5f487a4e3eaefa2bbb5ee213f1,
title = "Social and environmental factors influencing dietary choices among Dawenkou culture sites, Late Neolithic China",
abstract = "Archaeological cultures are commonly defined by typologies established from ceramic assemblages at sites dated to a relatively restricted timeframe and located in specific geographic regions. It is often assumed that cultural traditions, social organizations, and other aspects of lifeways were similar throughout the established cultural areas. However, variations in pottery assemblages, burial practices, house construction techniques, and subsistence strategies are observed among late Neolithic Dawenkou culture sites in China. This study uses stable isotopic, archaeobotanical, and archaeozoological analysis to investigate variation in diet at middle and late Dawenkou sites. We provide new isotopic data for two sites and a comparison of results for all studies to date for the Dawenkou culture area. There is significant synchronic and diachronic variation, both among and within sites, during the middle and late Dawenkou period. There are multiple potential explanations for this variability including constraints from environmental factors such as temperature, precipitation, local geomorphology, and social factors such as gender, social status, and ethnicity. This study demonstrates that closer examination of Dawenkou culture sites using multiple approaches provides a more nuanced understanding of variation in communities that deserve further analysis.",
keywords = "China, Neolithic, agriculture, food, identity, stable isotopes",
author = "Yu Dong and Songtao Chen and Ambrose, {Stanley H.} and Anne Underhill and Xue Ling and Mingkui Gao and Zhenguang Li and Fengshi Luan and Guiyun Jin",
note = "Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41703003), the Wenner-Gren Foundation (grant 8296), and Shandong University (2020QNQT018). Mass spectrometry instrumentation was supported by the National Science Foundation, USA (grant 9871480). Funding Information: We thank Xi Chen, Northwest University, Xi?an, who helped in the process of sample preparation, Keith Hackley and Shari Fanta at the Illinois State Geological Survey for help with mass spectrometry, and Hong Wang at the Illinois State Geological Survey for help with preparing samples for radiocarbon dating. The first author would like to thank Dr. Rick Schulting for introducing the applications of FRUITS package when the first author was sitting in his class. We would also like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41703003), the Wenner-Gren Foundation (grant 8296), and Shandong University (2020QNQT018). Mass spectrometry instrumentation was supported by the National Science Foundation, USA (grant 9871480).",
year = "2021",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1177/0959683620970273",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "31",
pages = "271--284",
journal = "Holocene",
issn = "0959-6836",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
number = "2",
}