Towards a biologically available strontium isotope baseline for Ireland

C Snoeck, S Ryan, J Pouncett, M Pellegrini… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Strontium isotopes are used in archaeology, ecology, forensics, and other disciplines to
study the origin of artefacts, humans, animals and food items. Strontium in animal and …

New understandings of the sea spray effect and its impact on bioavailable radiogenic strontium isotope ratios in coastal environments

E Alonzi, SI Pacheco-Forés, GW Gordon, I Kuijt… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Archaeological chemists compare the radiogenic strontium isotope ratios of humans to those
of the environment in order to assess paleomobility in contexts across the world, spanning …

A large-scale environmental strontium isotope baseline map of Portugal for archaeological and paleoecological provenance studies

HF James, S Adams, M Willmes, K Mathison… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Strontium isotopes (87 Sr/86 Sr) provide valuable information to help reconstruct
past mobility. For the analysis of archaeological tooth enamel to provide a direct assessment …

Mobility during the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Northern Ireland explored using strontium isotope analysis of cremated human bone

C Snoeck, J Pouncett, G Ramsey… - American journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives As many individuals were cremated in Neolithic and Bronze Age Ireland, they
have not featured in investigations of individual mobility using strontium isotope analysis …

Strontium isotope analysis reveals prehistoric mobility patterns in the southeastern Baltic area

G Piličiauskas, E Simčenka, K Lidén… - Archaeological and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract We measured 87Sr/86Sr for all available human remains (n= 40) dating from the
Mesolithic to the Bronze Age (ca. 6400–800 cal BC) in Lithuania. In addition, local baselines …

Movement of agricultural products in the Scandinavian Iron Age during the first millennium AD: 87Sr/86Sr values of archaeological crops and animals in southern …

M Larsson, O Magnell, A Styring… - STAR: Science & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we examine the exchange of crops and livestock through the application of
strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotope analysis on cereal grains and faunal tooth enamel from the …

Multi-isotope fingerprints of recent environmental samples from the Baltic coast and their implications for bioarchaeological studies

A Göhring, S Hölzl, C Mayr, H Strauss - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Stable isotopes in coastal regions are influenced by the so-called sea spray effect which
masks the actual terrestrial isotope fingerprint with a marine isotope signal. The sea spray …

Isotopic evidence for changing mobility and landscape use patterns between the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in western Ireland

C Snoeck, C Jones, J Pouncett, S Goderis… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of a study using strontium, oxygen and carbon isotopes,
strontium concentrations, infrared analyses and radiocarbon dating to investigate human …

Application of Gaussian Mixture Model clustering for the resolution of multi-isotope fingerprints

A Göhring, G Grupe, P Kröger - … and mobility: the current state of research, 2023 - Springer
The analysis of multi-isotope fingerprints has become common during the last decade, and
there is no doubt that this will be the future of this field in archaeometry. However, isotopic …