Reconstruction of diet of population from Roman period (1st-4th c. A.D.) on Pruszcz Gdański cemetery material
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1997
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Polskie Towarzystwo Antropologiczne
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The cemeteries of the Wielbark culture in Pruszcz Gdański date back to the beginning of our era. Their location
near the Baltic Sea suggests some connection with Germanic tribes. In an attempt to reconstruct the diet of the buried
there, 182 bone samples were taken from 48 skeletons there and subjected to analysis for chemical elements. The data
show the bone samples had a zinc-dominant microelement composition that has been also observed at Germanic burial
places situated along the frontier of the Roman Empire. Our supposition is that the diet of the population was dictated
by their customs rather than by the natural environment conditions there.
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Przegląd Antropologiczny, vol. 60, 1997, pp. 89-95