Continuation of fishing subsistence in the Ukrainian Neolithic: diet isotope studies at Yasinovatka, Dnieper Rapids
Journal: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Year: 2020

Abstract Yasinovatka is one of around 30 prehistoric cemetery sites of fisher-hunter-foragers located along the Dnieper River in southern Ukraine. Dating to c. 5540–4930 cal BC, the skeletal remains at Yasinovatka suggest that around sixty-eight individuals were interred at the cemetery, during three broad phases of interment: A-type burials ( c . 5540–4930 cal BC), Ƃ1 pit burials ( c . 5550–4750 cal BC), and Ƃ2 pit burials ( c . 4980–4460 cal BC). The burials are characterized, in part, by the