Stable isotopes, radiocarbon and the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Iron Gates

Abstract

The results of stable carbon and nitrogen-isotope analyses of human bone collagen from the Iron Gates sites of Lepenski Vir, Vlasac and Schela Cladovei are reconsidered in the light of recent developments in stable isotope palaeodietary research and new information on chronology. The revised data have implications for the interpretation of Lepenski Vir and Vlasac, and the timing of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Iron Gates