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dc.contributor.authorPerez-Ramallo, P.
dc.contributor.authorGrandal-d´Anglade, A.
dc.contributor.authorOrganista, E.
dc.contributor.authorSantos, E.
dc.contributor.authorChivall, D.
dc.contributor.authorRodriguez-Varela, R.
dc.contributor.authorGotherstrom, A.
dc.contributor.authorEtxeberria, F.
dc.contributor.authorIlgner, J.
dc.contributor.authorFernandes, R.
dc.contributor.authorArsuaga, J.L.
dc.contributor.authorLe Roux, P.
dc.contributor.authorHigham, T.
dc.contributor.authorBeaumont, Julia
dc.contributor.authorKoon, Hannah E.C.
dc.contributor.authorRoberts, P.
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-03T08:02:29Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-24T14:56:47Z
dc.date.available2022-10-03T08:02:29Z
dc.date.available2022-10-24T14:56:47Z
dc.date.issued2022-10
dc.identifier.citationPerez-Ramallo P, Grandal-d'Anglade A, Organista E et al (2022) Multi-isotopic study of the earliest medieval inhabitants of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 14: Article number 214.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/19184
dc.descriptionYesen_US
dc.description.abstractSantiago de Compostela is, together with Rome and Jerusalem, one of the three main pilgrimage and religious centres for Catholicism. The belief that the remains of St James the Great, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, is buried there has stimulated, since their reported discovery in the 9th century AD, a significant flow of people from across the European continent and beyond. Little is known about the practical experiences of people living within the city during its rise to prominence, however. Here, for the first time, we combine multi-isotope analysis (δ13C, δ15N, δ18Oap, δ13Cap, and 87Sr/86Sr) and radiocarbon dating (14C) of human remains discovered at the crypt of the Cathedral of Santiago to directly study changes in diet and mobility during the first three centuries of Santiago’s emergence as an urban centre (9th-12th centuries AD). Together with assessment of the existing archaeological data, our radiocarbon chronology broadly confirms historical tradition regarding the first occupation of the site. Isotopic analyses reveal that the foundation of the religious site attracted migrants from the wider region of the northwest corner of the Iberian Peninsula, and possibly from further afield. Stable isotope analysis of collagen, together with information on tomb typology and location, indicates that the inhabitants of the city experienced increasing socioeconomic diversity as it became wealthier as the hub of a wide network of pilgrimage. Our research represents the potential of multidisciplinary analyses to reveal insights into the origins and impacts of the emergence of early pilgrimage centres on the diets and status of communities within Christian medieval Europe and beyond.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis project has been supported by a grant from the ‘la Caixa’ Banking Foundation (ID 100010434; Code: LCF/BQ/ES16/11570006). Patxi Pérez-Ramallo and Patrick Roberts would also like to thank the Max Planck Society for funding for this project. Patxi Pérez-Ramallo, Hannah Koon and Julia Beaumont would like to thank the University of Bradford for funding a support the first osteological and stable isotope analysis conducted in 2015. Two of the isotopic analyses and 14C dates have been carried out with funding from the Xunta de Galicia to the CulXeo Group (ED431B 2018/47) and to the research network ‘Cultural Heritage, archaeological and technical services’ (R2016/023). Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.isreferencedbyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01678-0en_US
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2022. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.en_US
dc.subjectPaleodieten_US
dc.subjectMobilityen_US
dc.subjectCamino de Santiagoen_US
dc.subjectPilgrimageen_US
dc.subjectSantiago de Compostelaen_US
dc.subjectMiddle Agesen_US
dc.titleMulti-isotopic study of the earliest medieval inhabitants of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain)en_US
dc.status.refereedYesen_US
dc.date.Accepted2022-09-28
dc.date.application2022-10-12
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.type.versionPublished versionen_US
dc.rights.licenseCC-BYen_US
dc.date.updated2022-10-03T08:02:32Z
refterms.dateFOA2022-10-24T14:57:21Z
dc.openaccess.statusopenAccessen_US


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