The Neolithic is a rather particular pivotal period. This is the time when humans begin to settle in territories and establish villages. It is the beginning of the domestication of certain animals as well as the cultivation of plants and cereals. Gradually, the way of life of societies changes from hunter-gatherers to breeders, which profoundly changes the contents of the plates.
Was everyone fed the same way in Neolithic societies?
To identify how these populations ate, it is necessary to scrape bones, teeth or pottery in search of isotopes, that is to say certain atom forms, for example carbon 14, carbon 13 or carbon 12 are three isotopes of carbon. Depending on what we eat, what we drink and where we live, we incorporate some of them more or less into our tissues. In this new study, new analyzes of the Neolithic necropolis of Barmaz revealed that around fifty individuals ate in the same way, regardless of their sex or place of birth. Explanations with Déborah Rosselet-Christ, doctoral researcher at the ARCAN laboratory at the University of Geneva and first author of this study published in Journal of archaeological science: Reports.
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