In contexts where human remains are scarce, poorly preserved, or otherwise unavailable for
stable isotope-based paleodietary reconstruction, dog bone collagen as well as other …

Organic fertilizers have the capacity to alter the nitrogen isotopic composition of plants.
Camelid dung and seabird guano are two potentially important fertilizers in the agricultural …

When archaeological human remains are absent or otherwise unavailable for bone
chemistry-based paleodietary reconstructions, dog remains may provide an appropriate …

An isotopic reconstruction of human dietary patterns and livestock management practices
(herding, grazing, foddering, etc.) is presented here from the sites of Düzen Tepe and …

Background Stable isotope analysis is being utilized with increasing regularity to examine a
wide range of issues (diet, habitat use, migration) in ecology, geology, archaeology, and …

The discovery of a cemetery at Teouma on the island of Efate in Vanuatu dated to c. 3000
years ago increased the number of early Pacific human remains available for study by …

Remote Oceania was colonized ca. 3000 BP by populations associated with the Lapita
Cultural Complex, marking a major event in the prehistoric settlement of the Pacific Islands …

Prior to the introduction of wheat and barley from Central Asia during the Neolithic period,
northern Chinese agricultural groups subsisted heavily on millet. Despite being the focus of …

Nitrogen and carbon isotope compositions were measured in the bone collagen from a total
of 86 prehispanic samples of the Canary Islands, and hydrogen in 70, all of them with …

The rise of stratified societies fundamentally influences the interactions between status,
movement, and food. Using isotopic analyses, we assess differences in diet and mobility of …