Traditionally, documentary evidence (mainly medical works and the vitae and miracles of
saints) served as the primary source of information for perinatal nutrition in the Byzantine …

The duration of the breastfeeding and weaning periods is very much a combination of
environmental and cultural elements and the study of those practices in historical …

Objectives: Studies of the carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios (δ13C and δ15N) of
modern tissues with a fast turnover, such as hair and fingernails, have established the …

Incremental dentine analysis utilizes tissue that does not remodel and that permits
comparison, at the same age, of those who survived infancy with those who did not at high …

Objectives Recent developments in incremental dentine analysis allowing increased
temporal resolution for tissues formed during the first 1,000 days of life have cast doubt on …

Empirical observations of δ 15 N of bone collagen by age at death from 56 archaeological
sites (n= 1560) document an increase over the adult mean at ages∼ 0–2 years. These …

Intra‐tooth stable isotope analysis of dentine provides a more sensitive means to examine
infant and childhood life history in the past than conventional cross‐sectional analyses that …

Background Nitrogen isotope analysis of bone collagen has been used to reconstruct the
breastfeeding practices of archaeological human populations. However, weaning ages have …

September 1985. Sifting through the fill of a square barrow burial, in a shallow chalk valley
near Garton Station, the digger's trowel hit something hard and metallic. Carefully easing …

Background: Stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) in bone and
dentine collagen have been used for over 30 years to estimate palaeodiet, subsistence …