Rescue excavations in the urbanized area of the Varna Bay in 2017 have brought to light 15 prehistoric burials whose grave goods and AMS dating have unequivocally related them to the famous Copper Age cemetery in Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. The newly excavated area was called Varna 3 and the ten AMS-dated individuals from there and 19 individuals from the Varna 1 cemetery were subjected to FRUITS modelling for the purposes of dietary reconstruction. There is no link between diet and grave deposition but differentiation in diet does exist in terms of sex. The results showed overall isotopic consistency with a small group of five outliers, among whom is a five-year-old girl with steppe aDNA ancestry, who is considered to be a migrant to the Varna area. We discuss the social implications of the dietary and aDNA results that reveal a more complex pattern than had previously been considered.

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瓦尔纳墓地古代饮食对生活方式的解读

2017 年在瓦尔纳湾城市化地区进行的救援挖掘发现了 15 个史前墓葬，其墓葬物品和 AMS 年代测定法明确地将它们与保加利亚黑海沿岸瓦尔纳著名的铜器时代墓地联系起来。新挖掘的区域被称为 Varna 3，来自那里的 10 个 AMS 日期个体和来自 Varna 1 墓地的 19 个个体进行了 FRUITS 建模，以进行饮食重建。饮食与严重沉积之间没有联系，但饮食方面确实存在性别差异。结果显示，与一小群五个异常值的总体同位素一致性，其中有一个具有草原 aDNA 血统的 5 岁女孩，她被认为是到瓦尔纳地区的移民。