Biogeochemical methods using stable isotopes and trace elements have been increasingly
developed and applied to reconstruct modern and ancient breastfeeding and weaning …

Milk from domestic cows has been a valuable food source for over 8,000 years, especially in
lactose-tolerant human societies that exploit dairy breeds. We studied geographic patterns …

Abstract In European and many African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian populations,
lactase persistence (LP) is the most strongly selected monogenic trait to have evolved over …

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 …

This book highlights new and emerging uses of stable isotope analysis in a variety of
ecological disciplines. While the use of natural abundance isotopes in ecological research is …

Despite centuries of research, much about the barbarian migrations that took place between
the fourth and sixth centuries in Europe remains hotly debated. To better understand this key …

Lactase persistence (LP) is common among people of European ancestry, but with the
exception of some African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian groups, is rare or absent …

The Neolithic Revolution began 11,000 years ago in the Near East and preceded a
westward migration into Europe of distinctive cultural groups and their agricultural …

Neolithic Farming in Central Europe examines the nature of the earliest crop cultivation, a
subject that illuminates the lives of Neolithic farming families and the day-to-day reality of the …

Naturally occurring variations in the stable isotope composition of fossil vertebrates have
been studied since the late 1970s. Isotopic data from vertebrate fossils are sometimes used …