The wolf (Canis lupus L., 1754) has been a major keystone predator in the Palaearctic since
the late Middle Pleistocene. Today, wolves display considerable dietary plasticity over their …

Understanding how maritime hunter-gatherer diets changed through time in response to
increasing social complexity can help us understand important transitions in early human …

There are certain animal candidates for which researchers have long speculated as having
been managed, or possibly domesticated, by indigenous peoples in the pre-Columbian …

Archaeologists frequently use garden hunting, or the hunting of animals from cultivated
areas, to explain patterns in the zooarchaeological record of people who relied on …

This study provides an isotopic examination of both human and animal paleodiets and
mobility patterns at a highland Maya community. Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala, was a large …

Sixteen taxa comprising extinct megafauna and extant species from a single asphalt deposit
(Project 23, Deposit 1) at Rancho La Brea were isotopically analyzed (δ 13 C, δ 15 N, δ 34 …

The city of Teotihuacan (AD 1–550) was a major multiethnic urban center that attracted
migrants from as far away as west Mexico and the Maya region. Past research in the …

This paper presents the results of stable carbon (δ 13C) and nitrogen (δ 15N) isotopic
analysis of bulk bone collagen from faunal remains from the Bronze Age site of Kaymakçı in …

Here we present the first isotopic investigation of a Vandalic period site (ca. 5th–6th
centuries AD), the Theodosian Wall cemetery at Carthage, in modern day Tunis, Tunisia …

Isotopic analyses have become an important tool in archaeological and bioarchaeological
research. This chapter provides an overview of the application of both stable and radiogenic …