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) …

Strontium isotopes from the earth to the archaeological skeleton: a review

R Alexander Bentley - Journal of archaeological method and theory, 2006 - Springer
Strontium isotope analysis of archaeological skeletons has provided useful and exciting
results in archaeology in the last 20 years, particularly by characterizing past human …

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 …

New directions in bioarchaeology: Recent contributions to the study of human social identities

KJ Knudson, CM Stojanowski - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2008 - Springer
As a discipline that bridges the biological and social sciences, bioarchaeology has much to
contribute to a contextualized and theoretically sophisticated understanding of social …

Bronze Age childhood migration of individuals near Stonehenge, revealed by strontium and oxygen isotope tooth enamel analysis

JA Evans, CA Chenery, AP Fitzpatrick - Archaeometry, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Contrasting lifestyles are recorded by the isotope composition of Bronze Age Beaker people
(c. 2500–2000 bc) from three burial sites (Boscombe Down, Normanton Down and the ditch …

The isotope record of short-and long-term dietary changes in sheep tooth enamel: implications for quantitative reconstruction of paleodiets

A Zazzo, M Balasse, BH Passey, AP Moloney… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2010 - Elsevier
Quantitative reconstruction of paleodiet by means of sequential sampling and carbon
isotope analysis in hypsodont tooth enamel requires a precise knowledge of the isotopic …

Best practices for selecting samples, analyzing data, and publishing results in isotope archaeology

P Vaiglova, NA Lazar, EA Stroud, E Loftus… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Isotopic analysis has become one of the most popular arenas of archaeological science, in
part due to its versatility to uncover intriguing insights from a range of organic and inorganic …

High-resolution δ13C intratooth profiles in bovine enamel: Implications for mineralization pattern and isotopic attenuation

A Zazzo, M Balasse, WP Patterson - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2005 - Elsevier
We present the first high-resolution carbon isotope and carbonate content profiles generated
through the thickness of enamel from a steer fed C3-then C4-dominant food. Carbonate …

Unlocking evidence of early diet from tooth enamel

LT Humphrey, MC Dean… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Recent developments in microspatial analysis of enamel chemistry provide the resolution
needed to reconstruct detailed chronological records of an individual's early life history …

Stable isotope insights (δ18O, δ13C) into cattle and sheep husbandry at Bercy (Paris, France, 4th millennium BC): birth seasonality and winter leaf foddering

M Balasse, L Boury, J Ughetto-Monfrin… - Environmental …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Bercy is a prehistoric village sited by the Seine river (Paris, France), whose main period of
occupation was dated to the very beginning of the 4th millennium BC. The animal …