Pastori semi-nomadi e agricoltori sedentari. Diete a confronto dai livelli del Bronzo Antico (inizi III millennio a.C.) nel sito di Arslantepe (Turchia)

The diets of the inhabitants of two communities with strongly differing economic organisation and settlement layout, are compared on the basis of unpublished isotopic analyses. These occupy the site of Arslantepe in two distinct and successive moments, in the first centuries of the 3rd millennium BCE. Human bones have been analysed for oxygen, carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes and provide direct indication of what was being eaten and drank. The apparent similarity in diets and food choices of these two distinct communities provides interesting data for discussion on primary economy and settlement organisation, and aids in understanding the behaviours and relations of the two communities.