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Further Light on Carbon Isotopes and Hopewell Agriculture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Margaret M. Bender ,
David A. Baerreis  and
Raymond L. Steventon
Margaret M. Bender
Affiliation:
Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
David A. Baerreis
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
Raymond L. Steventon
Affiliation:
Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
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Abstract

The 13C/12C ratio in human collagen was determined for 19 individuals from Hopewell sites in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Ohio and compared with 27 new measurements from individuals of Archaic, Mississippian, and Late Woodland affiliation. Additional measurements were made of elements in the food chain and on experimental animals fed on a diet of known composition containing maize. The similarity of the Hopewell measurements to those of nonmaize diets indicates that corn was of little importance in the Hopewell diet for those populations tested.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , April 1981 , pp. 346 - 353
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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