A turning point in the Bronze Age: the diet was changed and the society was transformed
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The bioarchaeological investigation of the Bronze Age cemetery of Tiszafüred-Majoroshalom has shed new light on an important period in Central European history. An international research team – led by Tamás Hajdu, associate professor at the Department of Anthropology at ELTE and Claudio Cavazzuti, senior assistant professor at the University of Bologna, has shown that around 1500 BC, radical changes occurred in people’s lives: they ate and lived differently, and the social system was also reorganized.
With its cold climate, short growing season, and dense forests, Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known as a challenging place for farming. But a new Dartmouth-led study provides evidence of intensive farming by ancestral Native Americans at the Sixty Islands archaeological site along the Menominee River, making it the most complete ancient agricultural site in the eastern half of the United States.The findings are published in Science.
Field and pot fertilization experiments on foxtail millet and common millet further suggest that the millet grain δ15N values can serve as reliable indicators of manuring practices, and the relationship between manuring levels and the δ15N values of archaeological millet remains was proposed. The δ15N values of ancient millet grains suggest widespread and intensive manuring practices in prehistoric North China.