Diet and ethnicity during the Viking colonization of northern Scotland: Evidence from fish bones and stable carbon isotopes

J H Barrett; R P Beukens; R A Nicholson

Diet and ethnicity during the Viking colonization of northern Scotland: Evidence from fish bones and stable carbon isotopes

J H Barrett, R P Beukens, R A Nicholson

Stockholm Environment Institute at York

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Abstract

Diet and ethnicity are strongly related. Recent work on fish-bone ratios and stable carbon isotopes suggest that the Vikings increased the fish contribution to the diet of Orkney and Shetland by a greater investment in deep-sea fishing.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	145-154
Number of pages	10
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	75
Issue number	287
Publication status	Published - Mar 2001

Keywords

cod
Vikings
fish bones
Orkney
Shetland
carbon isotopes
AGE CALIBRATION
ARCHAEOLOGY
MIGRATION
COLLAGEN
ORKNEY

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