Norse Animal Husbandry in Liminal Environments: Stable Isotope Evidence from the Scottish North Atlantic Islands
Norse Animal Husbandry in Liminal Environments: Stable Isotope Evidence from the Scottish North Atlantic Islands
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DOI：
10.1080/14614103.2018.1439678
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
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1.5
通讯作者：
Mulville, Jacqui A.
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作者：
Jones, Jennifer R.;Mulville, Jacqui A.
本文采用三角洲C-13和三角洲N-15骨胶原蛋白分析，探讨动物管理在大型挪威定居点在苏格兰北大西洋岛屿的阈环境。北欧时期是一个社会、文化和经济变革的时期;养活不断增长的人口的需要和贸易的需求意味着国内库存是一种至关重要的资源。我们的研究结果表明，在这些具有挑战性的岛屿环境中饲养动物需要仔细管理。在所有地点，家畜和绵羊的饮食和活动都非常相似，并受到严格控制，尽管许多分析的定居点靠近海岸，但没有使用海滨放牧或饲料资源。相比之下，各岛屿群体的养猪策略各不相同。在西部群岛猪的饮食是多样化的，家庭或特设管理的指示，而在奥克尼所有的猪消耗更严格的饮食主要是基于陆地蛋白质。对西部岛屿上的红鹿和国内种群进行比较表明，两个群体都在利用类似的放牧生态位。
This paper employs delta C-13 and delta N-15 analysis of bone collagen to explore animal management at large Norse settlement sites in the liminal environments of the Scottish North Atlantic Islands. The Norse period was a time of social, cultural and economic change; the need to feed an expanding population and the demand for trade meant that domestic stock were a crucial resource. Our results indicate that rearing animals in these challenging insular environments required careful management. At all sites, the diet and movement of domestic cattle and sheep were highly similar and carefully controlled and, despite many of the analysed settlements lying close to the coast, there was no use of shorefront grazing or fodder resources. In contrast, pig rearing strategies varied across the island groups. In the Western Isles pig diets were diverse, indicative of household or ad hoc management, whilst on Orkney all pigs consumed a more restricted diet based primarily on terrestrial protein. A comparison of red deer with domestic stock on the Western Isles indicates that both groups were exploiting similar grazing niches.