Dogs as analogs in stable isotope-based human paleodietary reconstructions: a review and considerations for future use

EJ Guiry - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2012 - Springer
In contexts where human remains are scarce, poorly preserved, or otherwise unavailable for
stable isotope-based paleodietary reconstruction, dog bone collagen as well as other …

A canine surrogacy approach to human paleodietary bone chemistry: past development and future directions

EJ Guiry - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2013 - Springer
When archaeological human remains are absent or otherwise unavailable for bone
chemistry-based paleodietary reconstructions, dog remains may provide an appropriate …

Comparing apples and oranges: Why infant bone collagen may not reflect dietary intake in the same way as dentine collagen

J Beaumont, EC Atkins, J Buckberry… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons

R Martiniano, A Caffell, M Holst, K Hunter-Mann… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The purported migrations that have formed the peoples of Britain have been the focus of
generations of scholarly controversy. However, this has not benefited from direct analyses of …

Changing cultures, changing cuisines: cultural transitions and dietary change in Iron Age, Roman, and Early Medieval Croatia

E Lightfoot, M Šlaus… - American journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Food is well‐known to encode social and cultural values, for example different social groups
use different consumption patterns to act as social boundaries. When societies and cultures …

Isotopic reconstruction of human diet and animal husbandry practices during the Classical‐Hellenistic, imperial, and Byzantine periods at Sagalassos, Turkey

BT Fuller, B De Cupere, E Marinova… - American Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
An isotopic reconstruction of human dietary patterns and livestock management practices
(herding, grazing, foddering, etc.) is presented here from the sites of Düzen Tepe and …

Diversity in foddering strategy and herd management in late Bronze Age Britain: an isotopic investigation of pigs and other fauna from two midden sites

R Madgwick, J Mulville, RE Stevens - Environmental Archaeology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Middens of the southern British late Bronze and Iron Age are vast accumulations of cultural
debris that can be explained as refuse dumps linked with large periodic feasting events. A …

'Sprouting like cockle amongst the wheat': the St Brice's Day massacre and the isotopic analysis of human bones from St John's College, Oxford

AM Pollard, P Ditchfield, E Piva, S Wallis… - Oxford Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The recent discovery in St John's College of a mass burial of mostly young adult males with
severe perimortem blade trauma has prompted the suggestion that these may be related to …

Stable isotopes and diet: their contribution to Romano-British research

G Müldner - Antiquity, 2013 - cambridge.org
The study of stable isotopes surviving in human bone is fast becoming a standard response
in the analysis of cemeteries. Reviewing the state of the art for Roman Britain, the author …

An investigation of diet in early Anglo-Saxon England using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of human bone collagen

S Mays, N Beavan - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2012 - Elsevier
The principal aim of this work is to investigate whether protein sources in human diets in
early Anglo-Saxon (5th–7th century AD) England varied with geographic location, or with …