Stable isotope evidence for dietary and cultural change over the Holocene at the Sabana de Bogotá region, Northern South America

The Sabana de Bogota in the northern Andes is an interesting region to investigate temporal patterns of dietary variation because it counts with a vast archeological and osteological record for the last 10,000 years. In this paper, stable isotope data of human archeological bone collagen and apatite were used to study the evolution of diet and major subsistence transformations taking place during the Holocene (∼9000–600 cal BP). Paleoenvironmental reconstructions and the isotopic ecology of the Sabana de Bogota were used as an interpretative baseline. Stable isotope measurements (δ¹3Ccol, δ¹3C... Mehr ...