Diet Reveals What Life Was Like 2,700 Years Ago in an Italian Community: Gender Inequality, Social Status and Migration

Bones Buried in Italian Necropolis Offer Clues on Ancient Diets and Society Before the Romans

Learn what buried bones reveal about the diet of ancient cultures in Italy, shedding light on mobility, gender inequality, and social status.

Diet reveals what life was like 2,700 years ago in an Italian community: Gender inequality, social status and migration

An international study led by the Universities of Córdoba and Pisa used isotopic analysis to reconstruct the dietary traces left in human remains found in an Italian necropolis, revealing what daily life was like in that community 2,700 years ago. Despite the passage of time, certain patterns of behavior recur: diet, human mobility, gender differences and the role of funerary symbolism in signifying social status.

Diet reveals what life was like 2,700 years ago in a local community: Gender inequality, social status, and migration

Biological and archaeological analysis of human remains from a 2,700-year-old Italian necropolis reveals, through what the people ate, how they lived, how they moved, and how they organized their society.