Isotopes in Archaeology

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Stable isotope data indicate origins of mislabelled historical bird specimens | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Rafael Dantas Lima, Ana Beatriz Navarro, Jason Newton, Alexander Charles Lees, Luís Fábio Silveira | #ornithology 🪶

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New #CpgSthlm paper led by @maridehasque.bsky.social published in Biology Letters!

Genomic and morphological analysis reveals long-term mammoth hybridization in British Columbia, Canada
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Check out @benjaminguinet.bsky.social's fantastic thread explaining how he recovered the oldest host-associated microbial genome! 🦠🦣🧬

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Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory Population movements constitute a significant driver of cultural change in prehistoric societies. In recent years, sulfur isotopes have emerged as a valuable approach for distinguishing human/animal p...

Our new paper is out:

Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory
#stableisotopes

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More late Neolithic animals moving about, telling their stories through science: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to UCD Archaeology's Dr Neil Carlin & colleagues on their new Open Access paper: Guiry, E, et al (2025) 'Pigs, pannage, and the solstice: isotopic insights from prehistoric feasting at Newgrange' out this morning in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 1/3 doi.org/10.1017/ppr....

Frontiers | Emerging strontium isoscapes of Anatolia (Türkiye): new datasets and perspectives in bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr baseline studies IntroductionThe use of strontium isotope ratio (87Sr/86Sr) analysis in ancient mobility studies in the archaeology of Anatolia (modern Türkiye) has steadily ...

Our strontium isoscape of Türkiye is published today in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology!

"Emerging strontium isoscapes of Anatolia (Türkiye): new datasets and perspectives in bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr baseline studies"

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Marine exploitation and the arrival of farming: resolving the paradox of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Denmark The transition to farming in the coastal environments of southern Scandinavia remains a key conundrum in European prehistory. This region was heavily …

Very impressive and incredibly dense paper on the Neolithic transition to farming in Denmark in the centuries around 4000 BC. Specifically squaring the biomolecular evidence for sharp shifts in genetic ancestry and diet indicative of migrations…

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High-resolution compound-specific δ15N isotope dietary study of humans from the Scottish Mesolithic and Neolithic
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#OpenAccess #AminoAcids #Neolithic #StableIsotopeAnalyses

New CSIA isotope paper on Mesolithic/Neolithic Scottish humans showing potential use of marine foods in diets into the Neolithic - congratulations to Valentina and thanks to all of the co-authors

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Tracking 4000 years of raptor diets through isotope analysis reveals urban scavenging with implications for conservation Birds of prey (‘raptors’) often consume anthropogenic foods and can be closely associated with human settlements. In medieval Britain, birds of prey w…

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Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain Megalithism has been repetitively tied to specialised herding economies in Iberia, particularly in the mountainous areas of the Basque Country. Legaire Sur, in the uplands of Álava region, is a recent...

Today my new paper was published in Plos One. High-resolution Neolithic life history reconstructions using Incremental dentine, bone collagen, and multi-enamel sampling! I'm really pleased with this one

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Non‐Analog Behaviour of Eastern African Herbivore Communities During the Last Glacial Period Drawing from serially-sampled stable isotope measurements from 18 Kenyan large herbivore species from the Last Glacial Period (LGP), we evaluate how diet, diet-switching, and migration compare to obs...

New Article Alert! doi.org/10.1111/ele....

In our newly published paper in Ecology Letters, we use serially sampled strontium and carbon isotopes from 18 species of antelope, buffalo, and zebra from the Last Glacial Period of Kenya to reconstruct herbivore behavior in the Late Pleistocene.
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New paper from recent graduated PhD student Valentina Martinioa on compound-specific analysis from the iconic Greek site of Franchti Cave. Congratulations Valentina!

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#openscience #opendata #zooarchaeology In case there are people out there are people out there looking for metric, ageing, #isotope etc data from #Greece #Hellenistic dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtm...

The first Belgium’s strontium isoscape is out now!
Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon!

Paper here👇
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Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001

New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna member #MagdalenaBlanz et al. on 'The effect of seaweed fertilisation on sulfur isotope ratios (δ³⁴S) and grain size in barley: Implications for agronomy and archaeological research'

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Biosphere isotope domains (Great Britain) - British Geological Survey The biosphere isotope domains data comprises analysis and location specific information for strontium, oxygen & sulphur isotopic variation for Great Britain

A quick plug for the GB isotope biosphere map and its video explanation update.
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Perspectives on Animal Husbandry and Human-Animal Relationships: A Multi-Proxy Approach - 11 December 2024 - Archonline Date: 11 December 2024 Location: Nijenborgh 6, 9747 AG, Groningen, room 62 (ground floor) Credits: 1 ECT Animal husbandry, encompassing both the domestication and management of animals, has profoundly...

Workshop announcement, dec. 11th. Human - animal relations, including lots of aDNA and some isotopes. Groningen and online: www.archonline.nl/december-202...

✨Sharing my latest first-author paper here and hoping it will be a good introduction 🥳!! This paper is part of the #NEOGENRE project and we examine the stable CNS isotope compositions of human and fauna from Rosheim (Alsace, Middle Neolithic) in France. journals.openedition.org/bmsap/14186