title: Agro-pastoral diets in southern Italy from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age
abstract: The period from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age was a time of considerable socio-cultural and economic change, which affected human diets. To improve our understanding of dietary change in communities living in the south of Italy during this period, we have undertaken stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses on human bone collagen and AMS radiocarbon dating of individuals whose chronology needed to be verified. The skeletal remains investigated are from the regions of Calabria (Grotta della M