High-precision isotopic analysis of essential mineral elements in biomedicine: natural isotope ratio variations as potential diagnostic and/or prognostic markers

M Costas-Rodríguez, J Delanghe… - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2016 - Elsevier
High-precision isotopic analysis of essential mineral elements, mainly Ca, Cu, Fe and Zn,
provides relevant biomedical information. For this application, multi-collector ICP-mass …

Direct evidence of milk consumption from ancient human dental calculus

C Warinner, J Hendy, C Speller, E Cappellini… - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Milk is a major food of global economic importance and its consumption is regarded as a
classic example of gene-culture evolution. Humans have exploited animal milk as a food …

The first farmers of central Europe: diversity in LBK lifeways

A Whittle, P Bickle - 2013 - torrossa.com
From about 5500 cal BC to soon after 5000 cal BC, the lifeways of the first farmers of central
Europe–the LBK, after the German labels Linearbandkeramik or Linienbandkeramik–are …

Isotopes in cultural heritage: present and future possibilities

AG Nord, K Billström - Heritage Science, 2018 - Springer
This paper is focused on methodology and scientific interpretations by use of isotopes in
heritage science—what can be done today, and what may be accomplished in the near …

Trace elements and their isotopes in bones and teeth: Diet, environments, diagenesis, and dating of archeological and paleontological samples

B Reynard, V Balter - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2014 - Elsevier
Fossil biogenic apatites display trace element (TE) compositions that can record
environmental and biological signals, give insights into past water compositions, or be used …

Zinc isotope ratios as indicators of diet and trophic level in arctic marine mammals

K Jaouen, P Szpak, MP Richards - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios of bone collagen are an established method for
dietary reconstruction, but this method is limited by the protein preservation. Zinc (Zn) is …

Calcium isotopic fractionation and compositions of geochemical reference materials

F Liu, HL Zhu, X Li, GQ Wang… - Geostandards and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
High‐precision calcium isotopic compositions of a set of geological reference materials from
the IAG (OU‐6), ANRT (UB‐N), MPI‐DING, USGS and GSJ, relative to NIST SRM 915a, are …

New frontiers in calcium stable isotope geochemistry: perspectives in present and past vertebrate biology

T Tacail, S Le Houedec, JL Skulan - Chemical Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Beyond their established uses in Earth and Planetary sciences, calcium (Ca) isotopes have
a promising future in the study of the biology of present and past vertebrates, including …

[HTML][HTML] Collision course; high-precision mass-independent and mass-dependent calcium isotope measurements using the prototype collision cell MC-ICPMS/MS …

J Lewis, TH Luu, CD Coath, H Wehrs, JB Schwieters… - Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reports measurements of mass-independent and mass-dependent Ca isotope
variations using the prototype collision cell MC-ICPMS/MS, Proteus. Helium and hydrogen …

Potential of non-traditional isotope studies for bioarchaeology

K Jaouen, ML Pons - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2017 - Springer
As a consequence of recent developments in mass spectrometry, the application of non-
traditional stable isotope systems (eg Ca, Cu, Fe, Mg, Sr, Zn) as well as radiogenic isotopes …