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dc.contributor.authorHiguero Pliego, A.
dc.contributor.authorBeaumont, Julia
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-24T16:25:23Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-05T13:46:55Z
dc.date.available2023-03-24T16:25:23Z
dc.date.available2023-04-05T13:46:55Z
dc.date.issued2023-06
dc.identifier.citationHiguero Pliego A and Beaumont J (2023) The monks of San Millán: Investigating the transition between pre-monastic and monastic diet using carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in incremental dentine. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 49: 103981.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/19391
dc.descriptionYes
dc.description.abstractFrom the early Medieval period, Christian monasteries were wealthy and powerful, and played a central role in both religious and political life. Those who entered the monasteries did so at the age of 7-8 years and were drawn from a wide range of social strata. From that point, they were subject to the dietary rules imposed by the rules of each monastic order. In order to assess the origins and diet of 10 monks who lived in the monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla Yuso (La Rioja, Spain) during the 17th – 18th century, collagen from small sections of human dentine (representing the childhood diet) and from ribs (an average of the last 5 - 10 years of adult diet) was measured to establish lifetime variations in the isotope ratios of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N). Bulk collagen δ13C (overall mean= -18.2‰ +/-0.4) and δ15N (overall mean= 12.6‰ +/-0.8) values from the ribs suggest 2 adult cohorts: one with a diet based on C3 plants and a high intake of protein from meat or dairy products and some marine resources and a second cohort with some C4 plant consumption alongside meat and dairy. Data from the dentine sections revealed different dietary patterns during the period of tooth formation among the monks, suggesting that 4 of them entered the monastery after consuming lower status diets during childhood.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis paper was written with the support of a PhD grant (BES-2015-075176) from the project CoChange (HAR2014-51830-P) lead by Prof. Pablo Arias.
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-nd/4.0/)
dc.subjectIsotopes
dc.subjectCarbon
dc.subjectNitrogen
dc.subjectDentine
dc.subjectMonks
dc.titleThe monks of San Millán: Investigating the transition between pre-monastic and monastic diet using carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in incremental dentine
dc.status.refereedYes
dc.date.application29/03/2023
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.versionPublished version
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103981
dc.rights.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.date.updated2023-03-24T16:25:27Z
refterms.dateFOA2023-04-05T13:47:35Z
dc.openaccess.statusopenAccess
dc.date.accepted20/03/2023


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