Oxygen isotopes in bioarchaeology: Principles and applications, challenges and opportunities

S Pederzani, K Britton - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
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) …

The oxygen isotope relationship between the phosphate and structural carbonate fractions of human bioapatite

CA Chenery, V Pashley, AL Lamb… - Rapid …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
RATIONALE Oxygen isotope analysis of archaeological human dental enamel is widely
used as a proxy for the drinking water composition (δ18ODW) of the individual and thus can …

Mycological evidence of coprophagy from the feces of an Alaskan Late Glacial mammoth

B van Geel, RD Guthrie, JG Altmann… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Dung from a mammoth was preserved under frozen conditions in Alaska. The mammoth
lived during the early part of the Late Glacial interstadial (ca 12,300 BP). Microfossils …

Subarctic climate for the earliest Homo sapiens in Europe

S Pederzani, K Britton, V Aldeias, N Bourgon… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The expansion of Homo sapiens across Eurasia marked a major milestone in human
evolution that would eventually lead to our species being found across every continent …

The ecological implications of a Yakutian mammoth's last meal

B van Geel, A Aptroot, C Baittinger, HH Birks… - Quaternary …, 2008 - cambridge.org
Part of a large male woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was preserved in
permafrost in northern Yakutia. It was radiocarbon dated to ca. 18, 50014C yr BP (ca. 22,500 …

Reconstructing Late Pleistocene paleoclimate at the scale of human behavior: an example from the Neandertal occupation of La Ferrassie (France)

S Pederzani, V Aldeias, HL Dibble, P Goldberg… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Exploring the role of changing climates in human evolution is currently impeded by a
scarcity of climatic information at the same temporal scale as the human behaviors …

Tracking possible decline of woolly mammoth during the Gravettian in Dordogne (France) and the Ach Valley (Germany) using multi-isotope tracking (13C, 14C, 15N …

DG Drucker, C Vercoutere, L Chiotti, R Nespoulet… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was an emblematic and key species of the
so-called mammoth steppe ecosystem between ca. 110,000 and 12,000 years ago. Its …

How cold was it for Neanderthals moving to Central Europe during warm phases of the last glaciation?

G Skrzypek, A Wiśniewski, PF Grierson - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Precise estimates of mean annual temperature (MAT) for when Neanderthals occupied
Central Europe are critical for understanding the role that climatic and associated …

Mitigation of the diagenesis risk in biological apatite δ18O interpretation

C Lécuyer, JP Flandrois - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2023 - Elsevier
The assessment of the potential blurring effect of diagenetic processes represents the
greatest challenge for geochemists whose purpose is to reconstruct environmental …

The nature of MIS 3 stadial–interstadial transitions in Europe: New insights from model–data comparisons

CJ Van Meerbeeck, H Renssen, DM Roche… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
15 abrupt warming transitions perturbed glacial climate in Greenland during Marine Isotope
Stage 3 (MIS 3, 60–27 ka BP). One hypothesis states that the 8–16° C warming between …