Stable Isotope Analysis Combined With ZooMS Reveals the Subsistence Strategies at Wupu Cemetery in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains, Northwest China

doi:10.1002/oa.3408

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	Stable Isotope Analysis Combined With ZooMS Reveals the Subsistence Strategies at Wupu Cemetery in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains, Northwest China
	Liu, Li 1,2; Sun, Nuoyang 1; Lyu, Enguo 3; Rao, Huiyun 4; Han, Bin 1; Jiang, Hongen 1; Yang, Yimin 1
	2025-04-24
发表期刊	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY
ISSN	1047-482X
页码	11
通讯作者	Yang, Yimin(yiminyang@ucas.ac.cn)
摘要	During the 2nd millennium bce, domestic ruminants were introduced to the eastern Tianshan Mountains (ETM) of Xinjiang, China, leading to the emergence of settled pastoralism and agro-pastoral economy. Since around the early Iron Age (1000 bce), the nomadic pastoral culture arose in this area. However, how this process influenced the diet of ancient people in the transitional period during the Bronze-Iron Age, and the resilience to adapt to different natural environments still needs further study. In this study, carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses are performed on human hairs (n = 18), wools (n = 6), leathers (n = 3), and millet seeds (n = 5) from Wupu cemetery, dating to 3000-2400 cal BP in Hami basin, ETM. Three leather samples are identified as sheep or cattle by zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry. The delta 13C divergence between wool samples (-20.0 +/- 1.3 parts per thousand) and cattle leather (-15.3 parts per thousand and -9.6 parts per thousand) suggests a compound feeding strategy of sheep grazing in the natural environment and cattle raising in pens. The result of human hairs (delta 13C = -16.7 +/- 1.6 parts per thousand, delta 15N = 12.3 +/- 1.6 parts per thousand) indicates a subsistence strategy of C3/C4 mixed agriculture integrated with pastoralism at Wupu. Then, we collected delta 15N values of domestic herbivores (n = 120) at low and high altitudes in the ETM as baselines to calculate human-herbivore delta 15N offsets at different altitudes. The results show that a certain percentage of individuals with an offset value below 3 parts per thousand are present in all low-altitude sites dominated by agro-pastoralism. However, in the high-altitude sites dominated by nomadic pastoralism, there are no such individuals. Thus, human-herbivore delta 15N offset values may have great potential to differentiate different lifestyles in the Eurasia steppe, where herbivores are the dominant domestic animals.
关键词	Early Iron Age stable isotope analysis subsistence strategy Wupu cemetery ZooMS
DOI	10.1002/oa.3408
关键词[WOS]	NITROGEN ISOTOPES ; XINJIANG ; POPULATIONS ; DIET ; IDENTIFICATION ; VARIABILITY ; INDICATORS ; REMAINS ; TISSUES ; RECORD
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Key Research and Development Program of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[42220104001] ; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities ; [2022YFF0904100]
项目资助者	National Key Research and Development Program of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Archaeology
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Archaeology
WOS记录号	WOS:001473889200001
出版者	WILEY
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/24780
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Yang, Yimin
作者单位	1.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Frontier Sci, Dept Integrated Biosci, Chiba, Japan 3.Inst Cultural Rel & Archaeol Xinjiang, Urumqi, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu, Li,Sun, Nuoyang,Lyu, Enguo,et al. Stable Isotope Analysis Combined With ZooMS Reveals the Subsistence Strategies at Wupu Cemetery in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains, Northwest China[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY,2025:11.
APA	Liu, Li.,Sun, Nuoyang.,Lyu, Enguo.,Rao, Huiyun.,Han, Bin.,...&Yang, Yimin.(2025).Stable Isotope Analysis Combined With ZooMS Reveals the Subsistence Strategies at Wupu Cemetery in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains, Northwest China.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY,11.
MLA	Liu, Li,et al."Stable Isotope Analysis Combined With ZooMS Reveals the Subsistence Strategies at Wupu Cemetery in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains, Northwest China".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY (2025):11.