Oxygen isotope analyses of skeletal remains (18 O/16 O, δ 18 O) are a powerful tool for
exploring major themes in bioarchaeology (the study of biological archaeological remains) …

Possibilities of edible insects use in European countries, are now an increasingly debated
issue. Insects in Asian, African, Central American and South Central American cultures are …

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 …

Abstract The publication of The Osteological Paradox (Wood et al., 1992, Current
Anthropology, 33: 343–370) a decade ago sparked debate about the methods and …

Stable isotope signatures of both human and non-human animal bone samples indicate that
Neolithic farmers of the Yellow and Wei River basins in China potentially cultivated millet for …

The past two million years of eastern African climate variability is currently poorly
constrained, despite interest in understanding its assumed role in early human evolution …

Since Darwin situated humans in an evolutionary framework, much discussion has focused
on environmental factors that may have shaped or influenced the course of human …

This brief review outlines the contribution that the study of stable isotope composition in
bone can make to palaeoclimatic investigation, with the focus almost entirely restricted to the …

This study examines the potential effects of diet and physiology on the oxygen-isotope ratios
of bone and tooth phosphate (δ18Op) from Nilotic Nubian mummies dating from the X-Group …

Techniques for dietary and palaeoclimate reconstruction based on stable isotope ratios in
the mineral phase of calcified tissues show great promise, but their pathways of …