Caracterización isotópica de Elba, la mujer mesolítica de chan do Lindeiro (Pedrafita, Lugo, Península Ibérica)

Abstract

The study of stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen of the mesolithic woman recovered in the cave of Chan do Lindeiro (Pedrafita do Courel, Lugo) and the comparison with other humans from diverse deposits of the Cantabrian Cornice allows to frame this individual in a transicional stage, with an economy different from that of the Paleolithic hunter-gatherers but also different from that of the later Neolithic producers. The relationship between this woman and the aurochs (Bos primigenius) recovered at the same site may have been different from simple meat harvesting.