Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Measurements of the Wild Animals Hunted by the Norse and the Neo-Eskimo People of Greenland

D. Erle Nelson; Jeppe Møhl; Jan Heinemeier; Jette Arneborg

doi:10.3721/037.004.s304

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D. Erle Nelson,¹ Jeppe Møhl,² Jan Heinemeier,³ Jette Arneborg^4,5,*

¹1Simon Fraser University, Department of Archaeology. Burnaby, BC, Canada.
²2Natural History Museum, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
³3AMS 14C Dating Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK
⁴4National Museum of Denmark. Middle Ages and Renaissance, Research and Exhibitions, Frederiksholms K
⁵5Institute of Geography, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland UK.

^*Corresponding author - Jette.arneborg@natmus.dk.

Abstract

Isotopic measurements of the terrestrial and marine wild animal species of greatest importance to Greenlandic Norse and Neo-Eskimo people were obtained to provide a solid basis for undertaking isotopic dietary analyses of these two human groups. The samples studied were animal bones from archaeological excavations of Norse and Neo-Eskimo middens. As expected, the values for the terrestrial and marine species were found to have characteristic isotopic composition, but there is sufficient variation within each group to require detailed consideration in interpreting isotopic information on the humans.

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D. Erle Nelson, Jeppe Møhl, Jan Heinemeier, and Jette Arneborg "Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Measurements of the Wild Animals Hunted by the Norse and the Neo-Eskimo People of Greenland," Journal of the North Atlantic 2012(sp3), 40-50, (1 October 2012). https://doi.org/10.3721/037.004.s304

Published: 1 October 2012

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