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New information on Melides stable isotopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Mary Jackes  and
David Lubell
Mary Jackes
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada (Email: [email protected])
David Lubell
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada (Email: [email protected])
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In 1994 we published the unexpected result of an extreme Mesolithic stable isotope signal from a Neolithic context (Lubell et al.1994; Table 1). The sample, identified as Gruta de Lagar I, was from one of two caves at the site of Melides, near the Atlantic coast of Portugal between Sines and Setúbal. A sample from the second cave at Melides, Cerca do Zambujal, gave results consonant with our Neolithic samples from north of the Tagus River. Lagar I, on the other hand, had stable isotope values similar to Cabeço da Arruda N, a Late Mesolithic individual from the Muge Valley to the north-east of Melides.

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Antiquity , Volume 90 , Issue 351 , June 2016 , pp. 617 - 619
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2016 

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