Reconstruction of breastfeeding and weaning practices using stable isotope and trace element analyses: A review

T Tsutaya, M Yoneda - American journal of physical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Biogeochemical methods using stable isotopes and trace elements have been increasingly
developed and applied to reconstruct modern and ancient breastfeeding and weaning …

Isotopic tracking of large carnivore palaeoecology in the mammoth steppe

H Bocherens - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Isotopic tracking of carnivore palaeoecology is a relatively new approach that yielded
important results for the study of the non-analogue mammoth steppe biome. After describing …

Lifetime mobility of an Arctic woolly mammoth

MJ Wooller, C Bataille, P Druckenmiller, GM Erickson… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Little is known about woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) mobility and range. Here
we use high temporal resolution sequential analyses of strontium isotope ratios along an …

Reconstruction of the Gravettian food-web at Předmostí I using multi-isotopic tracking (13C, 15N, 34S) of bone collagen

H Bocherens, DG Drucker, M Germonpré… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
The Gravettian site of Předmostí I in the central Moravian Plain has yielded a rich and
diverse large mammal fauna dated around 25–27,000 14 C years BP (ca. 29,500–31,500 …

Weaning behaviour in human evolution

LT Humphrey - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2010 - Elsevier
Human life history incorporates early weaning, a prolonged period of post-weaning
dependency and slow somatic growth, late onset of female reproduction, reduced birth …

New insight from old bones: stable isotope analysis of fossil mammals

MT Clementz - Journal of Mammalogy, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Stable isotope analysis of fossil materials has become an increasingly important method for
gathering dietary and environmental information from extinct species in terrestrial and …

Isotopic evidence for dietary ecology of cave lion (Panthera spelaea) in North-Western Europe: prey choice, competition and implications for extinction

H Bocherens, DG Drucker, D Bonjean, A Bridault… - Quaternary …, 2011 - Elsevier
The prey choice of extinct cave lions Panthera spelaea was determined using bone collagen
isotopic signatures in the Belgian Ardennes and the Swabian Jura between 40,000 and …

The problem of isotopic baseline: reconstructing the diet and trophic position of fossil animals

MM Casey, DM Post - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Stable isotope methods are powerful, frequently used tools which allow diet and trophic
position reconstruction of organisms and the tracking of energy sources through …

Linking top-down forces to the Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions

WJ Ripple, B Van Valkenburgh - BioScience, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Humans, in conjunction with natural top-down processes and through a sequence of
cascading trophic interactions, may have contributed to the Pleistocene megafaunal …

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 …