Isotopic evidence for diet in the Middle Chulmun period: a case study from the Tongsamdong shell midden, Korea

@article{Choy2010IsotopicEF,  title={Isotopic evidence for diet in the Middle Chulmun period: a case study from the Tongsamdong shell midden, Korea},  author={Kyungcheol Choy and Michael P. Richards},  journal={Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences},  year={2010},  volume={2},  pages={1-10},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:131284557}}
  • K. ChoyM. Richards
  • Published2 February 2010
  • History, Environmental Science
  • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
This article presents the first isotopic investigation of human and animal bone remains from the Middle Chulmun (3500–2000 BC) period in southeastern Korea. We have obtained a single human and associated faunal stable carbon and nitrogen isotope results from the Tongsamdong site, a coastal shell midden. Despite the discovery of domesticated plants and the existence of large amounts of terrestrial mammal bones from the shell midden, the human and dogs we measured were heavily dependent on marine… 

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