Oxygen isotopes in bioarchaeology: Principles and applications, challenges and opportunities

S Pederzani, K Britton - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Oxygen isotope analyses of skeletal remains (18 O/16 O, δ 18 O) are a powerful tool for
exploring major themes in bioarchaeology (the study of biological archaeological remains) …

Towards a biologically available strontium isotope baseline for Ireland

C Snoeck, S Ryan, J Pouncett, M Pellegrini… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Strontium isotopes are used in archaeology, ecology, forensics, and other disciplines to
study the origin of artefacts, humans, animals and food items. Strontium in animal and …

Flows of people in villages and large centres in Bronze Age Italy through strontium and oxygen isotopes

C Cavazzuti, R Skeates, AR Millard, G Nowell… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
This study investigates to what extent Bronze Age societies in Northern Italy were permeable
accepting and integrating non-local individuals, as well as importing a wide range of raw …

The Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Tooth Enamel Carbonate: A Review of Measurement Methods & Forensic Applications

DL Johnson, TH Chau, LA Chesson - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Oxygen isotopes in tooth enamel carbonate are commonly measured in studies of ecology,
paleoclimate, and provenance; however, methods for sample pretreatment and mass …

Osteological, multi-isotope and proteomic analysis of poorly-preserved human remains from a Dutch East India Company burial ground in South Africa

J Olszewski, RA Hall, LM Kootker, NJ Oldham… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Skeletal remains discovered in Simon's Town, South Africa, were hypothesised as being
associated with a former Dutch East India Company (VOC) hospital. We report a novel …

Isotopic biographies reveal horse rearing and trading networks in medieval London

AJE Pryor, C Ameen, R Liddiard, G Baker… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
This paper reports a high-resolution isotopic study of medieval horse mobility, revealing their
origins and in-life mobility both regionally and internationally. The animals were found in an …

IsoArcH. eu: An open-access and collaborative isotope database for bioarchaeological samples from the Graeco-Roman world and its margins

K Salesse, R Fernandes, X de Rochefort… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Presenting the Compendium Isotoporum Medii Aevi, a Multi-Isotope Database for Medieval Europe

C Cocozza, E Cirelli, M Groß, WR Teegen… - Scientific data, 2022 - nature.com
Here we present the Compendium Isotoporum Medii Aevi (CIMA), an open-access database
gathering more than 50,000 isotopic measurements for bioarchaeological samples located …

A strontium isoscape of Italy for provenance studies

F Lugli, A Cipriani, L Bruno, F Ronchetti, C Cavazzuti… - Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a novel database of biological and geological 87 Sr/86 Sr values (n= 1920) from
Italy, using literature data and newly analysed samples, for provenance purposes. We …

Human mobility in a Bronze Age Vatya 'urnfield'and the life history of a high-status woman

C Cavazzuti, T Hajdu, F Lugli, A Sperduti, M Vicze… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
In this study, we present osteological and strontium isotope data of 29 individuals (26
cremations and 3 inhumations) from Szigetszentmiklós-Ürgehegy, one of the largest Middle …