Research data supporting "Diet and lifestyle in the first villages of the Middle Preceramic: insights from stable isotope and osteological analyses of human remains from Paloma, Chilca I, La Yerba III and Morro I"

Dataset associated with publication of the same title published in Latin American Antiquity in 2021. The dataset includes a range of data related to an investigation of diet, stature and mobility in the middle preceramic sites of Paloma, Chilca I, La Yerba II and Morro I on the south coast of Peru and northern Chile. Tables include: 1) Individual stable isotope (nitrogen, carbon) from human bone samples from Paloma, La Yerba III and Chilca I generated in this study; 2) Individual and summary data on estimated stature from long bone lengths and biomechanical indicator (femoral midshaft Imax/Imin) data from individual adult skeletons from Paloma, Morro I, and later agriculturalists from the Azapa Valley, northern Chile; 3) Details of two new direct radiocarbon dates on human skeletal remains from Paloma; 4) New and published radiocarbon dates from Paloma calibrated using ShCal13 (Hogg et al. 2013), and then modelled using OxCal’s Bayesian analysis following Bronk Ramsey (2009, 2017), in a sequence of phases, according to reported stratigraphic sequence.; 5) New and existing radiocarbon dates from Paloma and existing dates from La Yerba III, Chilca I and Morro I collated and calibrated using ShCal13 (Hogg et al. 2013), and then modelled as a single phase using OxCal’s Bayesian analysis following Bronk Ramsey (2009, 2017)); 6) A chronological summary of individuals from Morro I included in the publication, based on previously published information, that includes cultural phasing, isotopic analyses, and associated and direct radiocarbon dates for each individual.