26775
Accession Number
8567
Title Of Article Chaper
Further light on carbon isotopes and Hopewell agriculture
Title Of Journal Book
American antiquity
Volume
46
Issue
2
Pages
346-353
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
The <sup>13</sup>C/<sup>12</sup>C 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 at 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 non-maize diets indicates that corn was of little importance in the Hopewell diet for those populations tested. -- AATA
pub_id
26775