Cattle and sheep raising and millet growing in the Longshan age in central China: Stable isotope investigation at the Xinzhai site

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.035

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	Cattle and sheep raising and millet growing in the Longshan age in central China: Stable isotope investigation at the Xinzhai site
	Dai, Lingling 1,2,3; Balasse, Marie 2; Yuan, Jing 4; Zhao, Chunqing 4; Hu, Yaowu 3; Vigne, Jean-Denis 2
	2016-12-28
发表期刊	QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
卷号	426 页码:145-157
文章类型	Article
摘要	Previous bone collagen stable isotope analyses conducted on faunal remains from archaeological sites from the Late Neolithic (Longshan) to the Bronze Age (Xia dynasty) in the Central Plains of China have revealed that C-4 plants - most probably cultivated millets - constituted a major part of cattle fodder and also contributed to sheep diet, although to a lower extent. In the present study, this difference between cattle and sheep diet management was investigated at the Xinzhai site (occupation phases 2 and 3, ca. 1800-1705 cal. BC), focusing on the seasonal scale through sequential delta C-13 and delta O-18 analysis in tooth enamel. This primary objective related to the reconstruction of Bronze Age husbandry practices required an effort in interpreting delta O-18 sequences recovered from cattle and sheep molars: potential difficulty in the identification of the seasonal cycle could rise, inherent to a specific climatic regime. This region of China is nowadays under the influence of the East-Asian summer monsoon, whose strength undergoes variability on the annual scale, but also did in the past on decadal to century scales. At Xinzhai, all sheep teeth and one deer tooth delivered delta O-18 sequences comparable to previously published sequences from locations were rainfall delta O-18 is temperature controlled (no monsoon influence), revealing minimal influence of the summer monsoon over these animals' lifetime. Some cattle teeth delivered sequences with bimodal distribution of delta O-18 values on the annual scale, potentially reflecting the influence of a summer monsoon. Such variability among domestic stock could relate to interannual/interdecadal variability in the monsoon intensity at the site location, or to differences in herding practices between sheep and cattle. Concomitant analysis of delta C-13 values in deer molars confirmed a surrounding wild environment dominated by C-3 plants throughout the year, supporting the idea that a C-4 signal in cattle and sheep diets resulted from feeding practices involving cultivated millets. Furthermore, sheep had access to millet in late summer time while cattle were constantly foddered throughout the year, to a very high extent. Given the annual growth cycle of millet, with late summer maturity, a year round provisioning to cattle would suppose constitution of fodder. Constant provisioning could also have required cattle to be kept by the settlement all year round, inducing less investment in cattle herding, but in return, a necessarily important input to sustain cattle diet requirements at the daily scale. This could in fine be connected to the privileged status for cattle in social or ritual related activities at Xinzhai. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
关键词	Husbandry Millet China Longshan Erlitou Stable Carbon And Oxygen Isotopes
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences
DOI	10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.035
关键词[WOS]	TOOTH DEVELOPMENT ; OXYGEN ISOTOPES ; BONE PHOSPHATE ; BIRTH SEASONALITY ; YR BP ; DELTA-C-13 ; COLLAGEN ; RATIOS ; DIET ; PRECIPITATION
收录类别	SCI ; SSCI ; AHCI ; ISTP
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000390535300019
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7527
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
作者单位	1.Anhui Univ, Hist Fac, Hefei 230601, Peoples R China 2.MNHN, CNRS, UMR 7209, Archeozool Archeobot Soc Prat & Environm,SUs, CP56,55 Rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Social Sci, Inst Archaeol, Beijing 100710, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dai, Lingling,Balasse, Marie,Yuan, Jing,et al. Cattle and sheep raising and millet growing in the Longshan age in central China: Stable isotope investigation at the Xinzhai site[J]. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,2016,426:145-157.
APA	Dai, Lingling,Balasse, Marie,Yuan, Jing,Zhao, Chunqing,Hu, Yaowu,&Vigne, Jean-Denis.(2016).Cattle and sheep raising and millet growing in the Longshan age in central China: Stable isotope investigation at the Xinzhai site.QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,426,145-157.
MLA	Dai, Lingling,et al."Cattle and sheep raising and millet growing in the Longshan age in central China: Stable isotope investigation at the Xinzhai site".QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 426(2016):145-157.

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