Soils are the fundament of terrestrial ecosystems. Across the globe we find different soil
types with different properties resulting from the interacting soil forming factors: parent …

Pyrogenic carbon (PC; also known as biochar, charcoal, black carbon and soot) derived
from natural and anthropogenic burning plays a major, but poorly quantified, role in the …

Organic fertilizers have the capacity to alter the nitrogen isotopic composition of plants.
Camelid dung and seabird guano are two potentially important fertilizers in the agricultural …

The development of isotopic baselines for comparison with paleodietary data is crucial, but
often overlooked. We review the factors affecting the carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) …

In recent decades the analysis of stable isotopes in plants has become a useful method to
infer natural and anthropogenic effects on the growing conditions of plants. Here we present …

This study measured δ13C and δ15N of fresh and charred seeds from six different taxa of
cereals and pulses. For each taxon, 12 different batches of seeds, all from the same growing …

This article explores the context of the long-distance translocation of crops in prehistory. We
draw upon contrasts in the isotopic signatures of Southwest Asian crops, including wheat …

The aim of this study is to assess the potential of charred archaeobotanical cereal grain and
pulse seed δ 13 C and δ 15 N values to provide evidence of crop growing conditions and as …

Research in to the nature of Neolithic agriculture in China is often focused on topics such as
the domestication and spread of cereal crops and the reconstruction of human and animal …

This paper describes IsoArcH, a new web-based database of isotopic data for
bioarchaeological samples from the Graeco-Roman world and its margins. IsoArcH was …