Human and domesticate animal bone collagen δ15N values in prehistory differ generally by
3‰ or more from Neolithic to post-Roman times in Northwest Europe, leading to an …

The Archaeology of Identity presents an overview of five of the key areas that have recently
emerged in archaeological social theory: gender, age, status, ethnicity and religion. This …

The zooarchaeology of complex societies provides insights into the interrelated social and
economic relationships that people and animals created. I present a synthesis of …

When did the market economy come to Europe? Fish might seem an unlikely commodity to
throw light on the matter, but the authors use fish bones from English sites to offer a vivid …

We report here on stable carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements of human and faunal
bone collagen from the Iron Age, Viking Age, and Late Medieval site of Newark Bay, Orkney …

Stable isotope measurements and radiocarbon dates on 54 burials from northern Scotland
document trends in marine protein consumption from the late Iron Age to the end of the …

Freshwater resources in past diets can lead to inaccuracies when attempts are made to
ascertain their radiocarbon ages or those of the consumers. Radiocarbon reservoir effects …

In this paper the authors investigate isotopic signatures of burials from the famous Viking
period cemetery at Birka in Sweden, comparing their results on diet with the status and …

During the early medieval period in Ireland, Dublin was established as the largest Viking
settlement on the island in the ninth century AD. A previous biodistance study has suggested …

The largest commercial fishery in medieval Europe developed in the western Baltic. The aim
of this paper is to assess traded and landed amounts of the main target species, Atlantic …