Environmental monitoring: Tobara fish as bioindicators of heavy metal pollution in a coastal ecosystem

NHS Hamada, RAS Ali, MAM El-Tabakh… - Regional Studies in …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aims to evaluate the liver, gill, and muscle tissue heavy metal accumulation of the
thin lip mullet (Chelon ramada) from Ain Ziana Lagoon, Benghazi. The heavy metals …

Sidon on the breadth of the wild sea: Movement and diet on the Mediterranean coast in the Middle Bronze Age

C Stantis, N Maaranen, A Kharobi… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objectives Excavations at Sidon (Lebanon) have revealed dual identities during the
Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000–1600 BCE): a maritime port and center for local distribution …

Agropastoral and dietary practices of the northern Levant facing Late Holocene climate and environmental change: Isotopic analysis of plants, animals and humans …

BT Fuller, S Riehl, V Linseele, E Marinova… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
One of the largest isotopic datasets of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean region is
evaluated, based on plants (n= 410), animals (n= 210) and humans (n= 16) from Tell Tweini …

Leprosy in medieval Denmark: Exploring life histories through a multi‐tissue and multi‐isotopic approach

A Brozou, BT Fuller, V Grimes… - American journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives By focusing on two Danish leprosaria (Næstved and Odense; 13th–16th c. CE)
and using diet and origin as proxies, we follow a multi‐isotopic approach to reconstruct life …

Once were warriors: Challenging occupation preconceptions in Lebanese weapon‐associated burials (Middle Bronze Age, Sidon)

A Kharobi, C Stantis, N Maaranen… - International Journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Found throughout the ancient Near East during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000–
1600 BCE), many modern scholars emphasize that weapon‐associated burials are …

Isotopic reconstruction of diet at the Vandalic period (ca. 5th–6th centuries AD) Theodosian Wall cemetery at Carthage, Tunisia

Y Ma, R Bockmann, ST Stevens… - International Journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Potential applications of biomolecular archaeology to the ecohistory of sea turtles and groupers in Levant coastal antiquity

RM Winter, W de Kock, PJ Palsbøll… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans have been exploiting marine resources along the Levantine coast for millennia.
Advances in biomolecular archaeology present novel opportunities to understand the …

[HTML][HTML] Increased C4 cultivation and consumption as an impetus for population growth at Badia Pozzeveri, Italy (11th–13th centuries CE)

A Amaro, BT Fuller, A Fornaciari, V Giuffra… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The focus of this study is to target the paucity of bioarchaeological information related to the
population growth that characterized the Late Middle Ages in Italy. Specifically, we used …

Mobility and connection among the Early Bronze Age Syrian elite

C Stantis, GS Compton, A Kharobi, N Maaranen… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The archaeological site of Umm el-Marra (in the Jabbul plain, western Syria), is a large,
fortified urban center. Excavations have uncovered ten tomb structures built during the Early …

Bioarchaeological evidence for ancient human diet and migration at Epidamnus/Dyrrachion and Apollonia in Illyria, Albania

LJ Reitsema, B Kyle, M Koҫi, RN Horton… - Archaeological and …, 2022 - Springer
We report preliminary carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotope evidence for diet and migration
during multiple periods in Albanian history, and compare isotopic evidence for diet to …