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

Abstract The publication of The Osteological Paradox (Wood et al., 1992, Current
Anthropology, 33: 343–370) a decade ago sparked debate about the methods and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

As a discipline that bridges the biological and social sciences, bioarchaeology has much to
contribute to a contextualized and theoretically sophisticated understanding of social …

Age of weaning is an important measure of parental investment, and in various human and
non-human primate studies, has been correlated with a range of developmental factors such …

Here we report δ13C and δ15N measurements of serial sections of human deciduous and
permanent tooth dentine from archaeological samples taken from the medieval village site of …

We examine the utility of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope variations to characterize the
length of the nursing/lactation period and age at weaning for two northern Pacific otariid …