Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mulville, Jacqui
• Madgwick, Rich
• Stevens, Rhiannon
• O'Connell, Tamsin
• Craig, Oliver
• Powell, Adrienne
• Sharples, Niall
• Pearson, Mike Parker

Titel

Isotopic Analysis of Faunal Material from South Uist, Western Isles, Scotland

Ist Teil von

• Journal of the North Atlantic, 2009, Vol.2 (1), p.51-59

Ort / Verlag

Eagle Hill Foundation

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper reports on the results from stable isotope analysis of faunal bone collagen from a number of Iron Age and later sites on the island of South Uist, in the Western Isles, Scotland. This preliminary investigation into the isotopic signatures of the fauna is part of a larger project to model the interaction between humans, animals, and the broader environment in the Western Isles. The results demonstrate that the island fauna data fall within the range of expected results for the UK, with the terrestrial herbivorous diets of cattle and sheep confirmed. The isotopic composition for pigs suggests that some of these animals had an omnivorous diet, whilst a single red deer value might be suggestive of the consumption of marine foods, such as by grazing on seaweed. However, further analysis is needed in order to verify this anomalous isotopic ratio.