Archaeometry and Individual Biographies: Evidence from Radiocarbon Dating, Isotope-Based Diet Reconstruction and Metal Composition from the 14th-17th-Century Cemetery in Bărăşti (Southern Romania)

This article presents the results of a series of archaeometric analyses - i.e. radiocarbon dating and analyses of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes for diet reconstruction and elemental composition of metal − carried out as part of the investigation of the medieval cemetery in Bărăşti (Cicăneşti commune, Argeş County, Southern Romania: Figure 1). The investigations presented here are at an early stage, but, despite methodological difficulties arising from the small number of samples and analyses, they were considered worth publishing because data of this kind are largely missing for the study region and period. In the interpretation of this paper,