Farmers or Nomads: Isotopic Evidence of Human-Animal Interactions (770BCE to 221BCE) in Northern Shaanxi, China

doi:10.3389/feart.2021.791323

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	Farmers or Nomads: Isotopic Evidence of Human-Animal Interactions (770BCE to 221BCE) in Northern Shaanxi, China
	Mengjie, Cui 1,2; Xue, Shang 2; Yaowu, Hu 3; Yan, Ding 4; Yanfeng, Li 4; Songmei, Hu 4
	2022-03-09
发表期刊	FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE
卷号	9 页码:9
通讯作者	Xue, Shang(shangxue@ucas.ac.cn) ; Yaowu, Hu(ywhu@fudan.edu.cn)
摘要	Chinese history is composed of the contest, war, and admixture between the nomads in the north plateau and the farmers in central China. During the Eastern Zhou Period (770-221 BCE), nomadic groups, such as Rong ((sic)) and Di ((sic)), occupied the Eurasian Steppes and had frequent contact with the farmer group in Central China according historic records. This created a geographic boundary between the two groups named the agro-pastoral interweaving belt. To explore the impact of ethnic integration and human-animal interaction during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of humans and animals at the Chongpingyuan site, Shaanxi, was undertaken. The delta C-13 (mean: -7.9 +/- 0.5 parts per thousand, n = 17) and delta N-15 values (mean: 8.8 +/- 0.6 parts per thousand, n = 17) for human and pigs (mean delta C-13: -8.1 +/- 0.5 parts per thousand; mean delta N-15:7.5 +/- 0.5 parts per thousand, n = 2) revealed that they consumed C(4-)based foods mainly while the delta C-13 and delta N-15 values of cattle (-17.6 parts per thousand, 4.3 parts per thousand, n = 1), horse (-17.1 parts per thousand, 4.1 parts per thousand, n = 1), and sheep (mean: -17.4 +/- 1.5 parts per thousand, 6.0 +/- 0.8 parts per thousand, n = 7) suggest that they relied on C-3 plants supplemented with minor C-4 plants. Based on the archaeological and historic contexts, we infer that humans at Chongpingyuan survived on an agro-pastoral economy with millet agriculture as the economic foundation. Given the isotopic spacing between humans and animals, we found that pigs contributed to the main sources of animal protein, whereas other animals might have been provisioned for other purposes, such as rituals or properties. In general, no significantly dietary differences between genders and funeral customs are found, but people with abundant burial objects seem to have consumed more animal protein, possibly related to social heterogeneity.
关键词	Eastern Zhou Dynasty Northern Shaanxi agro-pastoral economics subsistence strategy stable isotope analysis human-animal interaction
DOI	10.3389/feart.2021.791323
关键词[WOS]	BONE-COLLAGEN ; INNER-MONGOLIA ; LOESS PLATEAU ; CARBON ; AGRICULTURE ; MOUNTAINS ; TURNOVER ; REVEALS ; APATITE ; RATIOS
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	national social science fund[21BKG040]
项目资助者	national social science fund
WOS研究方向	Geology
WOS类目	Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000776469500001
出版者	FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
引用统计	被引频次：1[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/21420
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
通讯作者	Xue, Shang; Yaowu, Hu
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Fudan Univ, Dept Cultural Heritage & Museol, Shanghai, Peoples R China 4.Shaanxi Acad Archaeol, Xian, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mengjie, Cui,Xue, Shang,Yaowu, Hu,et al. Farmers or Nomads: Isotopic Evidence of Human-Animal Interactions (770BCE to 221BCE) in Northern Shaanxi, China[J]. FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE,2022,9:9.
APA	Mengjie, Cui,Xue, Shang,Yaowu, Hu,Yan, Ding,Yanfeng, Li,&Songmei, Hu.(2022).Farmers or Nomads: Isotopic Evidence of Human-Animal Interactions (770BCE to 221BCE) in Northern Shaanxi, China.FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE,9,9.
MLA	Mengjie, Cui,et al."Farmers or Nomads: Isotopic Evidence of Human-Animal Interactions (770BCE to 221BCE) in Northern Shaanxi, China".FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE 9(2022):9.