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JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS, vol.68, 2025 (AHCI, Scopus)
This study is an analysis of the dietary habits and subsistence practices of the Early Bronze Age (3rd millennium BC) population of Karatas,-Semay & uuml;k on the Elmal & imath; Plain near Antalya, T & uuml;rkiye. We generated and analysed bulk collagen 613C and 615N values for 21 adult human individuals and five faunal remains (a pig, caprids, and cattle). For humans, there is a range in 613C values of 1.3 %o from-20.1 %o to-18.8 %o and a range in 615N values of 3.1 %o from 6.8 %o to 9.9 %o. The mean 613C value for the adult humans sampled in this study is-19.3 %o f 0.3 %o and for 615N the mean value is 8.3 %o f 0.7 %o. There is an overall consistency in isotopic values for the sampled population across time and space, suggesting that dietary habits were relatively uniform. There is, however, some potential and subtle variation between males and females which may, tentatively, suggest some sex-based differences in dietary habits at an intra-population level. The findings of this study also appear to support the findings of previous studies regarding dietary and agricultural homogeneity in the Early Bronze Age of Anatolia.