The biogeochemical cycling of metals in natural systems is often accompanied by stable
isotope fractionation which can now be measured due to recent analytical advances. In …

For over 70 years the introduction of natural sciences to archaeology and cultural heritage
has been ever growing with multiple contributions to deciphering the past. Novel techniques …

Objectives The objective of this study has been to confirm the sex and the affinity of an
individual buried in a well‐furnished warrior grave (Bj 581) in the Viking Age town of Birka …

Biogeographical studies of migration and mobility in archaeology and bioarchaeology rely
on accurately characterizing local 87 Sr/86 Sr ranges, either through baseline studies or by …

This study investigates to what extent Bronze Age societies in Northern Italy were permeable
accepting and integrating non-local individuals, as well as importing a wide range of raw …

Different approaches are used to study wood provenance, but most of them are based on
tracers in wood that are generally controlled by climatic factors. The strontium isotopic ratio …

Strontium isotope analysis has been successfully applied to archaeological questions of
residential mobility and animal husbandry for over three decades. To obtain a full …

Abstract Strontium isotope ratio (87 Sr/86 Sr) has been widely used to trace human
migrations across geologically distinct landscapes in archaeological and forensic sciences …

We present a novel database of biological and geological 87 Sr/86 Sr values (n= 1920) from
Italy, using literature data and newly analysed samples, for provenance purposes. We …

The impact of human mobility on the northern European urban populations during the Viking
and Early Middle Ages and its repercussions in Scandinavia itself are still largely …