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) …

The archaeology of pastoral nomadism

W Honeychurch, CA Makarewicz - Annual Review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Pastoral nomadism encompasses an array of specialized knowledge concerned with the
daily rhythms and long-term tempos of caring for herd animals in order to extract subsistence …

Dietary reconstruction, mobility, and the analysis of ancient skeletal tissues: Expanding the prospects of stable isotope research in archaeology

CA Makarewicz, J Sealy - Journal of archaeological science, 2015 - Elsevier
The use of stable isotope ratio analysis in archaeology has exploded over the past few
decades to the point where it is now an established tool that is routinely used to investigate …

Subarctic climate for the earliest Homo sapiens in Europe

S Pederzani, K Britton, V Aldeias, N Bourgon… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The expansion of Homo sapiens across Eurasia marked a major milestone in human
evolution that would eventually lead to our species being found across every continent …

Isotopic biographies reveal horse rearing and trading networks in medieval London

AJE Pryor, C Ameen, R Liddiard, G Baker… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
This paper reports a high-resolution isotopic study of medieval horse mobility, revealing their
origins and in-life mobility both regionally and internationally. The animals were found in an …

Oxygen (δ18O) and carbon (δ13C) isotopic distinction in sequentially sampled tooth enamel of co-localized wild and domesticated caprines: Complications to …

CA Makarewicz, S Pederzani - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2017 - Elsevier
Dietary intake, drinking behavior, and physiology together influence the isotopic composition
of herbivore tooth enamel, but the degree to which these factors influence the sequence of δ …

Tooth enamel maturation reequilibrates oxygen isotope compositions and supports simple sampling methods

RB Trayler, MJ Kohn - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Oxygen isotope and major element zoning patterns of several disparate ungulate teeth were
collected to evaluate the timing and geometry of enamel formation, records of isotope …

Comparison between strip sampling and laser ablation methods to infer seasonal movements from intra-tooth strontium isotopes profiles in migratory caribou

M Le Corre, V Grimes, R Lam, K Britton - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Strontium isotopes analysis is a powerful tool in the study of past animal movements, notably
the sequential analysis of tooth enamel to reconstruct individual movements in a time-series …

In situ high spatial resolution 87Sr/86Sr ratio determination of two Middle Pleistocene (ca 580 ka) Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis teeth by LA–MC–ICP–MS

F Lugli, A Cipriani, C Peretto, M Mazzucchelli… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Bone and tooth tissues are important biological archives to study eating habits and
provenance of ancient humans and animals. By taking advantage of the high spatial …

Vertical transhumance of sheep and goats identified by intra-tooth sequential carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) isotopic analyses: evidence from Chalcolithic Köşk …

CA Makarewicz, BS Arbuckle, A Öztan - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Vertical transhumance is a crucial animal management strategy that provides livestock with
fresh pasture on a seasonal basis while simultaneously expanding the scale of landscape …