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) …

Body mass predicts isotope enrichment in herbivorous mammals

JV Tejada-Lara, BJ MacFadden… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Carbon isotopic signatures recorded in vertebrate tissues derive from ingested food and
thus reflect ecologies and ecosystems. For almost two decades, most carbon isotope-based …

Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia

J Louys, P Roberts - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Southeast Asia has emerged as an important region for understanding hominin and
mammalian migrations and extinctions. High-profile discoveries have shown that Southeast …

Comparing bioapatite carbonate pre-treatments for isotopic measurements: Part 2—Impact on carbon and oxygen isotope compositions

M Pellegrini, C Snoeck - Chemical Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
Carbon and oxygen isotope measurements (δ 13 C, δ 18 O) of bioapatite carbonate
fractions in archaeological and fossil remains are essential tools to investigate past diets …

Establishing a preservation index for bone, dentin, and enamel bioapatite mineral using ATR-FTIR

CAM France, N Sugiyama, E Aguayo - Journal of Archaeological Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Chemical and structural analysis of archaeological bioapatite requires well-preserved
unaltered mineral. Attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR …

The use of stable isotopes in postconflict forensic identification

LA Chesson, GE Berg - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope ratio analysis is becoming an extremely important tool for the forensic
investigator. It can be particularly useful in missing persons investigations to help establish …

SPORA, a new silver phosphate precipitation protocol for oxygen isotope analysis of small, organic-rich bioapatite samples

GL Conte, LE Lopes, AH Mine, RB Trayler, SL Kim - Chemical Geology, 2024 - Elsevier
Isotopic analysis of phosphate oxygen from bones and teeth (18 O p/16 O p, δ 18 O p) is a
common tool used to investigate modern and ancient ecosystems and their climate …

The Caribbean and Mesoamerica Biogeochemical Isotope Overview (CAMBIO)

CE Ebert, SW Hixon, GM Buckley, RJ George… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Caribbean & Mesoamerica Biogeochemical Isotope Overview (CAMBIO) is an
archaeological data community designed to integrate published biogeochemical data from …

Impact of heating conditions on the carbon and oxygen isotope composition of calcined bone

C Snoeck, RJ Schulting, JA Lee-Thorp, M Lebon… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Only the inorganic fraction of bone survives the high temperatures reached during
cremation, so that it remains the sole material available for isotopic analyses. In order to …

Further insight into Neolithic agricultural management at Kouphovouno, southern Greece: expanding the isotopic approach

P Vaiglova, A Gardeisen, M Buckley… - Archaeological and …, 2020 - Springer
This paper investigates agricultural management choices of farmers at the Neolithic site of
Kouphvouno, southern Greece. Previous stable isotopic analysis of charred plant remains …