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A Bayesian multi-proxy contribution to the socioeconomic, political, and cultural history of late medieval Capitanata (southern Italy)

Medieval southern Italy is typically viewed as a region where political, religious, and cultural systems coexisted and clashed. Written sources often focus on elites and give an image of a hierarchical feudal society supported by a farming economy. We undertook an interdisciplinary study combining h...

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Autores principales: Cocozza, Carlo, Teegen, Wolf-Rüdiger, Vigliarolo, Ilaria, Favia, Pasquale, Giuliani, Roberta, Muntoni, Italo Maria, Oione, Domenico, Clemens, Lukas, Groß, Marcus, Roberts, Patrick, Lubritto, Carmine, Fernandes, Ricardo
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10008551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36906701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30706-9
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author Cocozza, Carlo
Teegen, Wolf-Rüdiger
Vigliarolo, Ilaria
Favia, Pasquale
Giuliani, Roberta
Muntoni, Italo Maria
Oione, Domenico
Clemens, Lukas
Groß, Marcus
Roberts, Patrick
Lubritto, Carmine
Fernandes, Ricardo
author_facet Cocozza, Carlo
Teegen, Wolf-Rüdiger
Vigliarolo, Ilaria
Favia, Pasquale
Giuliani, Roberta
Muntoni, Italo Maria
Oione, Domenico
Clemens, Lukas
Groß, Marcus
Roberts, Patrick
Lubritto, Carmine
Fernandes, Ricardo
author_sort Cocozza, Carlo
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description Medieval southern Italy is typically viewed as a region where political, religious, and cultural systems coexisted and clashed. Written sources often focus on elites and give an image of a hierarchical feudal society supported by a farming economy. We undertook an interdisciplinary study combining historical and archaeological evidence with Bayesian modelling of multi-isotope data from human (n = 134) and faunal (n = 21) skeletal remains to inform on the socioeconomic organisation, cultural practices, and demographics of medieval communities in Capitanata (southern Italy). Isotopic results show significant dietary differences within local populations supportive of marked socioeconomic hierarchies. Bayesian dietary modelling suggested that cereal production, followed by animal management practices, was the economic basis of the region. However, minor consumption of marine fish, potentially associated with Christian practices, revealed intra-regional trade. At the site of Tertiveri, isotope-based clustering and Bayesian spatial modelling identified migrant individuals likely from the Alpine region plus one Muslim individual from the Mediterranean coastline. Our results align with the prevailing image of Medieval southern Italy but they also showcase how Bayesian methods and multi-isotope data can be used to directly inform on the history of local communities and of the legacy that these left.
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spelling pubmed-100085512023-03-13 A Bayesian multi-proxy contribution to the socioeconomic, political, and cultural history of late medieval Capitanata (southern Italy) Cocozza, Carlo Teegen, Wolf-Rüdiger Vigliarolo, Ilaria Favia, Pasquale Giuliani, Roberta Muntoni, Italo Maria Oione, Domenico Clemens, Lukas Groß, Marcus Roberts, Patrick Lubritto, Carmine Fernandes, Ricardo Sci Rep Article Medieval southern Italy is typically viewed as a region where political, religious, and cultural systems coexisted and clashed. Written sources often focus on elites and give an image of a hierarchical feudal society supported by a farming economy. We undertook an interdisciplinary study combining historical and archaeological evidence with Bayesian modelling of multi-isotope data from human (n = 134) and faunal (n = 21) skeletal remains to inform on the socioeconomic organisation, cultural practices, and demographics of medieval communities in Capitanata (southern Italy). Isotopic results show significant dietary differences within local populations supportive of marked socioeconomic hierarchies. Bayesian dietary modelling suggested that cereal production, followed by animal management practices, was the economic basis of the region. However, minor consumption of marine fish, potentially associated with Christian practices, revealed intra-regional trade. At the site of Tertiveri, isotope-based clustering and Bayesian spatial modelling identified migrant individuals likely from the Alpine region plus one Muslim individual from the Mediterranean coastline. Our results align with the prevailing image of Medieval southern Italy but they also showcase how Bayesian methods and multi-isotope data can be used to directly inform on the history of local communities and of the legacy that these left. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10008551/ /pubmed/36906701 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30706-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Cocozza, Carlo
Teegen, Wolf-Rüdiger
Vigliarolo, Ilaria
Favia, Pasquale
Giuliani, Roberta
Muntoni, Italo Maria
Oione, Domenico
Clemens, Lukas
Groß, Marcus
Roberts, Patrick
Lubritto, Carmine
Fernandes, Ricardo
A Bayesian multi-proxy contribution to the socioeconomic, political, and cultural history of late medieval Capitanata (southern Italy)
title A Bayesian multi-proxy contribution to the socioeconomic, political, and cultural history of late medieval Capitanata (southern Italy)
title_full A Bayesian multi-proxy contribution to the socioeconomic, political, and cultural history of late medieval Capitanata (southern Italy)
title_fullStr A Bayesian multi-proxy contribution to the socioeconomic, political, and cultural history of late medieval Capitanata (southern Italy)
title_full_unstemmed A Bayesian multi-proxy contribution to the socioeconomic, political, and cultural history of late medieval Capitanata (southern Italy)
title_short A Bayesian multi-proxy contribution to the socioeconomic, political, and cultural history of late medieval Capitanata (southern Italy)
title_sort bayesian multi-proxy contribution to the socioeconomic, political, and cultural history of late medieval capitanata (southern italy)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10008551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36906701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30706-9
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