Title: Faunal baseline data for E-Baltic hunter-gatherers
Subtitle: Faunal data presented on figure 4 in the article "Buried at home? Stable isotope analysis of the late hunter-gatherer cemetery population at Tamula, SE Estonia" (Tõrv & Eriksson, 2023)
Corresponding author: Mari Tõrv
Contact Information: mari.torv@ut.ee

Data in the dataset:
Site – name of the archaeological site the sample derives from
Context – a more specific context of the sample analysed (may be a burial, or a specific other archaeological context – like a hearth)
Lab no/Sample ID – the number given to the sample in the laboratory
Species – determination of the faunal species by the zooarchaeologist
Group – faunal group listing herbivores, omnivores (separately badgers), carnivores, marine, fish, birds
d13C (‰) – delta thirteen carbon value, is an isotopic signature, a measure of the ratio of the two stable isotopes of carbon – 13C and 12C – reported in parts per thousand (per mil, ‰).
d15N (‰) – delta fifteen nitrogen value, is an isotopic signature, a measure of the ratio of the two stable isotopes of nitrogen – 15N and 14N – reported in parts per thousand (per mil, ‰).
C:N ratio – A carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (C/N ratio or C:N ratio) is a ratio of the mass of carbon to the mass of nitrogen in organic residues
Country – the country of the origin of the sample
Reference – publication from where the data is driven from

Method description for collecting or generating the data, as well as the methods for processing data, if data other than raw data are being contributed:
The data in this dataset is gathered from the previous Publications. It forms a reference base for interpreting the human bulk stable isotope values within the article "Buried at home? Stable isotope analysis of the late hunter-gatherer cemetery population at Tamula, SE Estonia" (Tõrv & Eriksson, 2023). These data form the basis of the faunal groups on figure 4 at the named article. 

The methods used to generate the data are described in the following publications: 
Antanaitis-Jacobs, I., Richards, M., Daugnora, L., Jankauskas, R. & Ogrinc, N. 2009. Diet in early Lithuanian prehistory and the new stable isotope evidence.  – Archaeol. Baltica 12, 12–30.  
Berzinš, V., Brinker, U., Klein, C., Lübke, H., Meadows, J., Ruzite. M. & Schmölcke, U. 2014. New research at Rinnukalns, a Neolithic freshwater shell midden in northern Latvia. – Antiquity, 88: 341, 715–732. 
Brinker, U., Berzinš, V., Cerina, A. Gerhards, G., Kalninš, M., Krause-Kyora, B., Lübke, H., Meadows, J., Meinel, D., Ritchie, K., Rudzite, M., Tõrv, M., Zagorska, I. & Schmolcke, U. 2020. Two burials in a unique freshwater shell midden: insights into transformations of Stone Age hunter-fisher daily life in Latvia. – Archaeol Anthropol Sci, 12, 97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01049-7 
Eriksson, G. 2003. Norm and Difference. Stone Age Dietary Practices in Baltic Region. Jannes Snabbtryck Kuvertproffset HB, Stockholm. 
Heron, C., Craig, O.E., Luquin, A., Steele, V.J., Thompson, A. & Piliciauskas, G. 2015. Cooking fish and drinking milk? Patterns in pottery use in the southeastern Baltic, 3300–2400 cal BC. – J. Archaeol. Sci. 63, 33–43.  
Meadows, J., Berzinš, V., Brinker, U., Lübke, H., Schmölcke, U., Staude, A., Zagorska, I. & Zarina, G. 2016. Dietary freshwater reservoir effects and the radiocarbon ages of prehistoric human bones from Zvejnieki, Latvia. – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 6, 678–689. 
Piliciauskas, G., Jankauskas, R., Piliciauskiene, G. & Dupras, T. 2017a. Reconstructing Subneolithic and Neolithic diets of the inhabitants of the SE Baltic coast (3100-2500 cal BC) using stable isotope analysis. – Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 9: 7, 1421–1437. 
Piliciauskas, G., Jankauskas, R., Piliciauskiene, G., Craig, O. E., Charlton, S. & Dupras, T. 2017b. The transition from foraging to farming (7000–500 cal BC) in the SE Baltic: a re-evaluation of chronological and palaeodietary evidence from human remains. – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 14, 530–542.  
Robson, H.K., Skipityte, R., Piliciauskiene, G., Lucquin, A., Heron, C., Craig, O.E., Piliciauskas, G. 2019. Diet, cuisine and consumption practices of the first farmers in the southeastern Baltic. –  Archaeol. Anthropol. Sci. 11, 4011–4024.  
Schmölcke, U., Meadows, J., Ritchie, K., Berzinš, V., Lübke, H. & Zagorska, I. 2015. Neolithic fish remains from the freshwater shell midden Rinnukalns in northern Latvia. – Environmental Archaeology, 21: 4, 325–333.