Estimating ancient Huron-Wendat diet in southern Ontario using stable isotopes from dogs

This study explores the use of dog bone as a substitute for human bone when investigating past diet using 13C/12C and 15N/14N in collagen and 13C/12C in apatite, for ancestral Huron-Wendat communities in southern Ontario (1300–1650 CE). Canid bones from five Huron-Wendat sites in southern Ontario were analyzed and compared to faunal isotope values from these and other geographically proximate sites, and previously published human stable isotope …