This abstracts is part of session #378:
Title:
Accepting the challenge: Strontium isotopes on the Balearic Islands (Spain)
Content:
Strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) have been broadly used in Archaeology to discriminate local and non-local humans and animals. In an archipelago context like the Balearic Islands, the application of these analyses enables us to assess how people and animals moved between islands as well as the arrival of new populations. However, there are a number of challenges to consider, most especially when none or limited studies have previously been done on that geographical area surrounded by water.
This paper will present our most recent work on animal and human mobility in the Balearic Islands during the Recent Prehistory, presenting both the main challenges and the strontium isotopic results. To achieve this goal, animal and human samples from more than 10 Bronze Age-Iron Age archaeological sites located on Mallorca, Menorca and Formentera are included, which provides the first and most comprehensive overview for both animal and human mobility for this archipelago so far.
Keywords:
Balearic Islands, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Mobility, Animals, Humans
Main authors:
Lua Valenzuela-Suau1,6
Co-author:
Sílvia Valenzuela-Lamas2
Leopoldo Pena3
Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla5
Damià Ramis Bernad4
Affiliations:
1 ArqueoUIB Research Group. University of the Balearic Islands (Spain)
2 CSIC-Institució Milà i Fontanals (Spain)
3 GRC Geociències Marines. University of Barcelona (Spain)
4 Independent researcher
5 Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters. University of Tübingen
6 SERP Research Group. University of Barcelona (Spain)
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