| isotopic dietary analysis of a neanderthal and associated fauna from the site of jonzac (charente-maritime), france. | we report here on the isotopic analysis (carbon and nitrogen) of collagen extracted from a neanderthal tooth and animal bone from the late mousterian site of jonzac (charente-maritime, france). this study was undertaken to test whether the isotopic evidence indicates that animal protein was the main source of dietary protein for this relatively late neanderthal, as suggested by previous studies. this was of particular interest here because this is the first isotopic study of a relatively late ne ... | 2008 | 18396318 |