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

Authors
Barrett, JH Beukens, RP Nicholson, RA
Citation
Jh. Barrett et al., Diet and ethnicity during the Viking colonization of northern Scotland: Evidence from fish bones and stable carbon isotopes, ANTIQUITY, 75(287), 2001, pp. 145-154
Citations number
68
Categorie Soggetti
Archeology
Journal title
ANTIQUITY
ISSN journal
0003598X → ACNP
Volume
75
Issue
287
Year of publication
2001
Pages
145 - 154
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-598X(200103)75:287<145:DAEDTV>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
Diet and ethnicity are strongly related. Recent work on fish-bone ratios an d stable carbon isotopes suggest that the Vikings increased the fish contri bution to the diet of Orkney and Shetland by a greater investment in deep-s ea fishing.