Forensic application of isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) for human identification

LA Chesson, GE Berg, AJ Edwards, TH Chau, L Low… - Science & Justice, 2024 - Elsevier
Application of isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) to skeletal remains has become an
important tool to investigate human behavior and history. Isotopic variations in collagen …

Perspective: Hidden biases in isotope delta results and the need for comprehensive reporting

PJH Dunn, G Skrzypek - Rapid Communications in Mass …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements of stable‐isotope composition on an isotope‐delta scale can be subject to
bias between laboratories or over time within a single laboratory. This bias can arise not just …

Isotopes prove advanced, integral crop production, and stockbreeding strategies nourished Trypillia mega-populations

F Schlütz, R Hofmann, M Dal Corso… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
After 500 y of colonizing the forest-steppe area northwest of the Black Sea, on the territories
of what is today Moldova and Ukraine, Trypillia societies founded large, aggregated …

[HTML][HTML] Past rainfall patterns in Southeast Asia revealed by microanalysis of δ18O values in human teeth

P Vaiglova, JN Ávila, H Buckley, JC Galipaud… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Variations in human subsistence and settlement patterns have been documented at
Holocene archaeological sites across Island and Mainland Southeast Asia. Although climate …

Ethics and applications of isotope analysis in archaeology

C Stantis, BJ Schaefer, MA Correia… - American journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This synthesis explores specific ethical questions that commonly arise in isotopic analysis.
For more than four decades, isotope analysis has been employed in archeological studies to …

[HTML][HTML] Deer, drought, and warfare: Managing risk in the central Illinois river valley (CIRV) from the eleventh through fourteenth centuries

SJ Noe, GD Wilson, A VanDerwarker, RJ George… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigated how Mississippian residents of the Central Illinois River Valley (CIRV)
altered their hunting strategies in response to climate change and warfare in the 13th and …

Regional long-term analysis of dietary isotopes in Neolithic southeastern Italy: new patterns and research directions

MA Tafuri, S Soncin, S Panella, JE Thompson… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Isotopic analyses of prehistoric diet have only recently reached the threshold of going
beyond site-focused reports to provide regional syntheses showing larger trends. In this …

the North american Repository for archaeological Isotopes

TN Billings, E Scott, C Cocozza, S Hixon, N Boivin… - Scientific Data, 2025 - nature.com
Here, we present the North American Repository for Archaeological Isotopes (NARIA), the
largest open-access compilation of previously reported isotopic measurements (n= 28,374) …

The dynamics of Bovini exploitation strategies on the Central Plains of China from the Middle Neolithic to the Bronze Age

X Pei, F Liang, Y Cao, Y Zhang - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Bos and Bubalus are important Bovini resources worldwide and were widely exploited on
the Central Plains of China during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. However, distinguishing …

[HTML][HTML] Research regulations, cognitive mistakes and analytical models in stable isotope bioarchaeology

Y HU - Quaternary Sciences, 2023 - dsjyj.com.cn
Since 1970's, the importance of isotope analysis in archaeological sciences has become
more and more highlighted. In 2021, the author put forward a new term, stable isotope …