Strontium isotopes from the earth to the archaeological skeleton: a review

R Alexander Bentley - Journal of archaeological method and theory, 2006‏ - Springer
Strontium isotope analysis of archaeological skeletons has provided useful and exciting
results in archaeology in the last 20 years, particularly by characterizing past human …

Strontium isotope investigation of ungulate movement patterns on the Pleistocene Paleo-Agulhas plain of the Greater Cape floristic region, South Africa

SR Copeland, HC Cawthra, EC Fisher… - Quaternary Science …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Middle Stone Age sites located within the Greater Cape Floristic Region on the
South African southern coast have material culture with early evidence for key modern …

[كتاب][B] The archaeology of human bones

S Mays - 2021‏ - taylorfrancis.com
The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

On isotopes and old bones

JA Lee‐Thorp - Archaeometry, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
This review charts the developments and progress made in the application of stable light
isotope tools to palaeodietary adaptations from the 1970s onwards. It begins with an outline …

Stable isotope analysis: a tool for studying past diet, demography, and life history

MA Katzenberg, AL Waters‐Rist - Biological anthropology of …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope analysis is a well‐established tool for studying past human remains.
Applications have grown exponentially in the past 15 years, with studies focusing on living …

Comparison of transmission FTIR, ATR, and DRIFT spectra: implications for assessment of bone bioapatite diagenesis

MM Beasley, EJ Bartelink, L Taylor, RM Miller - Journal of archaeological …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Evaluation of diagenesis in bioapatite samples is an important step for screening
bone and tooth samples for stable isotope analysis to ensure in vivo signatures are …

Isotopic study of the biology of modern and fossil vertebrates

PL Koch - Stable isotopes in ecology and environmental …, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
Naturally occurring variations in the stable isotope composition of fossil vertebrates have
been studied since the late 1970s. Isotopic data from vertebrate fossils are sometimes used …

Body mass predicts isotope enrichment in herbivorous mammals

JV Tejada-Lara, BJ MacFadden… - … of the Royal …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Carbon isotopic signatures recorded in vertebrate tissues derive from ingested food and
thus reflect ecologies and ecosystems. For almost two decades, most carbon isotope-based …

Strontium isotopic signatures of natural mineral waters, the reference to a simple geological map and its potential for authentication of food

S Voerkelius, GD Lorenz, S Rummel, CR Quétel… - Food chemistry, 2010‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents the investigation of strontium isotope ratios of about 650 different
European natural mineral waters as part of the food traceability project “TRACE” funded by …

New directions in bioarchaeology: Recent contributions to the study of human social identities

KJ Knudson, CM Stojanowski - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2008‏ - Springer
As a discipline that bridges the biological and social sciences, bioarchaeology has much to
contribute to a contextualized and theoretically sophisticated understanding of social …