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Ethnoarchaeological and Stable Isotopes in the Study
of People's Diets. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 332
Subsistence and dietary studies in the Archaeological
record are poorly understood. This work describes a
study on modern peoples diet undertaken within and
adjacent to the Koobi Fora region of the East Lake
Turkana Basin in North Horr District, Northern Kenya
using actualistic and isotopic analysis. The ultimate
goal is to provide an interpretive framework for
investigating the subsistence strategies and diet of
people believed to have occupied the region during
the last 10,000 years. The three modern groups used
in this study are not direct analogues for the
Holocene peoples but do have diets similar to those
proposed in the region by Barthelme (1985). However,
if these peoples diets are found to be discrete, then
it may be possible to identify similar subsistence
strategies in the regions Holocene record. The data
from this work is important not only to
archaeologists but to botanists and ecologists.
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