Dear Frank,

some conclusions about their diet was possible for Mesolithic and Neolithic persons found in the Blätterhöhle near Hagen:

"Analyses of the aDNA and the oxygen and carbon isotopes carried out on human remains from the Blatter cave have allowed us to distinguish three different groups. The Mesolithic (haplogroup U) and one of the Neolithic (haplogroups H, U and others) groups yielded evidence of a terrestrial diet. The other Neolithic group, in contrast, produced data suggesting that the diet had been based on freshwater fish. All members of this group were of haplogroup U5 which allows us to conclude

that the »non-Neolithic« way of life was still practised into the 4 th millennium BC."

Jörg Orschiedt / Ruth Bollongino / Olaf Nehlich / Joachim Burger, Parallelgesellschaften? Die letzten Jäger und Sammler Mitteleuropas aus der Blätterhöhle. Archäologie in Westfalen-Lippe 2013 (Langenweißbach 2014), 43-45.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270157668_Parallelgesellschaften_Die_letzten_Jger_und_Sammler_Mitteleuropas_aus_der_Bltterhhle

Best regards,

Stefan

Article Parallelgesellschaften? Die letzten Jäger und Sammler Mittel...

Hello, this publication is available at the journal site Documenta Praehistorica. 

Piezonka H., Kostyleva E., Zhilin M., Dobrovolskaya M., Terberger T. 2013. Flesh or fish? First results of archaeometric research of prehistoric burials from Sakhtysh IIa, Upper Volga region, Russia. Documenta Praehistorica XL:57-73.doi: 10.4312/dp.40.6

There could be isotope study results.

All the best,

Ekaterina

Dear Frank,

Here are some papers on Stable isotopes and Mesolithic diet in Europe:

1) Lillie and Richards (2000), Stable Isotope Analysis and Dental Evidence of Diet at the Mesolithic–Neolithic Transition in Ukraine, Journal of Archaeological Science 27, 965–972.

2) Schulting and Richards (2002), Finding the coastal Mesolithic in southwest

Britain: AMS dates and stable isotope results on human remains from Caldey Island, south Wales, Antiquity 76: 1011-25.

3) Richards et al. (2003), Mesolithic and Neolithic Subsistence in Denmark: New Stable Isotope Data, Current Anthropology 44(2): 288-295.

4) Liden et al. (2004), The wet and the wild followed by the dry and the tame” – or did they occur at the same time? Diet in Mesolithic – Neolithic southern Sweden, Antiquity 78: 23-33.

5) Garci Guixe et al. (2006), Palaeodiets of Humans and Fauna at the

Spanish Mesolithic Site of El Collado, Current Anthropology 47(3): 549-556.

6) Schulting et al. (2008), Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis on human remains from the Early Mesolithic site of La Vergne (Charente-Maritime, France), Journal of Archaeological Science 35: 763-772.

There are of course few others which you can find in the reference lists of the above-mentioned.

I hope this helps!

Best regards,

Ioannis

Dear Frank,

There is one more:

Alexandrovskiy, A.L., Alexandrovskaya, E.I., Zhilin M.G., van der Plicht, J. Radiocarbon and Anthropochemical Studies of Mesolithic Human Bones from the Upper Volga. In: Radiocarbon, Vol 51, Nr 2, 2009, p 637–645.

If you e-mail me your e-mail address, I can e-mail you a .pdf of this article.

Best wishes,

Mikhail Zhilin

[email protected]

Thank you all!

Maybe one general artickle:

http://www.iansa.eu/papers/IANSA-2012-01-lillie.pdf

Journal Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica is just preparing one useful review about plant use in Mesolithic by Michaela Divišová and Petr Šída.

Hi Frank,

Also have a look at the Iron Gates (Danube Gorges) - this also covers the Meso-Neo transition

e.g. 

Bonsall, C., Cook, G. T., Hedges, R. E. M., Higham, T. F. G., Pickard, C., & Radovanovic, I. (2004). Radiocarbon and stable isotope evidence of dietary change from the Mesolithic to the Middle Ages in the Iron Gates: new results from Lepenski Vir.

Borić, D., Grupe, G., Peters, J., & Mikić, Ž. (2004). Is the Mesolithic-Neolithic subsistence dichotomy real? New stable isotope evidence from the Danube Gorges. European Journal of Archaeology, 7(3), 221-248.

Nehlich, O., Borić, D., Stefanović, S., & Richards, M. P. (2010). Sulphur isotope evidence for freshwater fish consumption: a case study from the Danube Gorges, SE Europe. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37(5), 1131-1139.

Best wishes,

Rosalind

Hi Frank,

Not to mention

Richards et al. 2003, Nature 

Tauber 1981, Nature

Fischer et al. 2007, JAS

Milner et al. 2004

If you cannot get a hold of these, I can email them to you as well as others from northern Europe. I have them all collated. 

Best,

Harry

Hi Frank,

Not to mention

Richards et al. 2003, Nature 

Tauber 1981, Nature

Fischer et al. 2007, JAS

Milner et al. 2004

If you cannot get a hold of these, I can email them to you as well as others from northern Europe. I have them all collated. 

Best,

Harry

Hi Frank,

For Portugal, most work on paleodiet for that period is by Claudia Umbelino (University of Coimbra).

Here is an article by her (in English):

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274896046_THE_SADO_SHELL_MIDDENS_ANTHROPOLOGICAL_AND_PALEODIETARY_DEPICTION

But you should also check her dissertation (unfortunately only in Portuguese). Here is the link for download at the University'e website:

https://estudogeral.sib.uc.pt/handle/10316/1585

(check bottom of the page for the download)

She is the specialist for the period in Portugal and she is also a very accessible person. You can contact her here at Researchgate. If it takes too long for her to answer, send me a message and I'll introduce you both via email.

Best,

Claudia

Chapter THE SADO SHELL MIDDENS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND PALEODIETARY DEPICTION

You should write to Marcello Mannino who was at Max Plank until a few weeks ago, now at Aarhus Uiversity. All the best - P