TY - JOUR
T1 - The resiliency of diet on the Copacabana Peninsula, Bolivia
AU - Juengst, Sara L.
AU - Hutchinson, Dale L.
AU - Chávez, Karen Mohr
AU - Chávez, Sergio J.
AU - Chávez, Stanislava R.
AU - Krigbaum, John
AU - Schober, Theresa
AU - Norr, Lynette
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for the archaeology of the project was provided by grants from the National Geographic Society, Foundation for Research and Conservation of Andean Monuments, and Central Michigan University. Funding for the stable isotope analyses was provided by grants from East Carolina University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - Humans use dietary resources in many ways, employing varied subsistence strategies in response to local environmental fluctuations and innovative technologies. Documenting these patterns of resource use is an important part of our understanding of past societies and human relationships with the landscape, animals, and each other. In this paper, we present results from stable isotope analysis of 66 individuals buried on the Copacabana Peninsula, Bolivia, compared to a baseline of 28 modern floral and faunal samples, and explore individual and population access to certain types of food over time (3000 BCE–CE 1700). The data show that access to C4 and lacustrine resources shifted slightly over time, especially during the Early Intermediate Period (CE 1–500). We argue that Copacabana peoples used diverse subsistence strategies to navigate fluctuating environmental and social conditions. This was not a teleological nor one-way process; rather, people made choices about food in response to environmental patterns, shifting subsistence strategies, differential ritual use of maize, or, most likely, a combination of all of the above.
AB - Humans use dietary resources in many ways, employing varied subsistence strategies in response to local environmental fluctuations and innovative technologies. Documenting these patterns of resource use is an important part of our understanding of past societies and human relationships with the landscape, animals, and each other. In this paper, we present results from stable isotope analysis of 66 individuals buried on the Copacabana Peninsula, Bolivia, compared to a baseline of 28 modern floral and faunal samples, and explore individual and population access to certain types of food over time (3000 BCE–CE 1700). The data show that access to C4 and lacustrine resources shifted slightly over time, especially during the Early Intermediate Period (CE 1–500). We argue that Copacabana peoples used diverse subsistence strategies to navigate fluctuating environmental and social conditions. This was not a teleological nor one-way process; rather, people made choices about food in response to environmental patterns, shifting subsistence strategies, differential ritual use of maize, or, most likely, a combination of all of the above.
KW - Bolivia
KW - Copacabana Peninsula
KW - Diet
KW - Environment
KW - Fish
KW - Isotopes
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101260
DO - 10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101260
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85098147346
VL - 61
JO - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
JF - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
SN - 0278-4165
M1 - 101260
ER -