Recent applications of isotope analysis to forensic anthropology

EJ Bartelink, LA Chesson - Forensic sciences research, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Isotope analysis has become an increasingly valuable tool in forensic anthropology
casework over the past decade. Modern-day isotopic investigations on human remains have …

Thirty‐four years of stable isotopic analyses of ancient skeletons in China: An overview, progress and prospects

Y Hu - Archaeometry, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope analysis of ancient skeletons has become a routine method and widely used
to answer diverse archaeological questions related to the human (animal) diets since the …

Stable isotope analysis: a tool for studying past diet, demography, and life history

MA Katzenberg, AL Waters‐Rist - Biological anthropology of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope analysis is a well‐established tool for studying past human remains.
Applications have grown exponentially in the past 15 years, with studies focusing on living …

Triple sulfur-oxygen-strontium isotopes probabilistic geographic assignment of archaeological remains using a novel sulfur isoscape of western Europe

CP Bataille, K Jaouen, S Milano, M Trost… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Sulfur isotope composition of organic tissues is a commonly used tool for gathering
information about provenance and diet in archaeology and paleoecology. However, the lack …

Quantitative diet reconstruction of a Neolithic population using a Bayesian mixing model (FRUITS): The case study of Ostorf (Germany)

R Fernandes, P Grootes, MJ Nadeau… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The island cemetery site of Ostorf (Germany) consists of individual human graves
containing Funnel Beaker ceramics dating to the Early or Middle Neolithic. However …

Archaeological evidence for long-term human impacts on sea turtle foraging behaviour

E Guiry, JR Kennedy, C Malcom… - Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Early conservation efforts to prevent the loss of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) from the
Caribbean Sea jumpstarted marine habitat and biodiversity protection. However, even there …

Stable isotopes reveal patterns of diet and mobility in the last Neandertals and first modern humans in Europe

C Wißing, H Rougier, C Baumann, A Comeyne… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Correlating cultural, technological and ecological aspects of both Upper Pleistocene modern
humans (UPMHs) and Neandertals provides a useful approach for achieving robust …

Multi-isotope analysis reveals that feasts in the Stonehenge environs and across Wessex drew people and animals from throughout Britain

R Madgwick, AL Lamb, H Sloane, AJ Nederbragt… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The great henge complexes of southern Britain are iconic monuments of the third millennium
BCE, representing great feats of engineering and labor mobilization that hosted feasting …

Nobody's land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia

N Sala, M Alcaraz-Castaño, M Arriolabengoa… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The Iberian Peninsula is a key region for unraveling human settlement histories of Eurasia
during the period spanning the decline of Neandertals and the emergence of anatomically …

Pyrite sulfur isotopes constrained by sedimentation rates: Evidence from sediments on the East China Sea inner shelf since the late Pleistocene

X Liu, D Fike, A Li, J Dong, F Xu, G Zhuang… - Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Isotopic compositions of coeval sulfide and sulfate have been widely employed to
reconstruct the seawater chemistry evolution over geologic time; however, these signals can …