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Response to Bonsall et al. “Food for Thought: Re-Assessing Mesolithic Diets in the Iron Gates”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2016

Olaf Nehlich  and
Dušan Borić
Olaf Nehlich*
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology, 6303 N.W. Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1 Canada; also Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Dušan Borić
Affiliation:
School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, Colum Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EU, United Kingdom
*
Corresponding author. Email: olaf@nehlich.com.
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Abstract

Here, we reply to the attempt by Bonsall et al. (2015) to re-assess our results from the sulfur isotopic study of bone collagen from Mesolithic and Neolithic sites along the Danube in the Iron Gates Gorges area (Nehlich et al. 2010). Although we are highly interested to see our data re-assessed, we found certain misinterpretations, mistaken assumptions, and factual errors regarding our results. Therefore, we want to respond and re-assess our previous data, too. We establish for a few individuals a quantitative dietary reconstruction to demonstrate the reliability of our earlier interpretations.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 57 , Issue 4 , 2015 , pp. 701 - 703
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Copyright © 2015 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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