Isotopes in Archaeology
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Isotope analysis in archaeology - diet and mobility and new methods. Managed by Mike Richards
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So delighted to have worked with Drs Christine France and Julianne Sarancha on this project. With deer samples, we created isoscapes (Sr, O, and S) for the state of Virginia.
Potentially hella useful for archaeology in the region. 🏺🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Potentially hella useful for archaeology in the region. 🏺🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
So delighted to have worked with Drs Christine France and Julianne Sarancha on this project. With deer samples, we created isoscapes (Sr, O, and S) for the state of Virginia.
Potentially hella useful for archaeology in the region. 🏺🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Potentially hella useful for archaeology in the region. 🏺🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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 🪶
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 🪶
October 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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 🪶
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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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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September 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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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
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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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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September 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Check out @benjaminguinet.bsky.social's fantastic thread explaining how he recovered the oldest host-associated microbial genome! 🦠🦣🧬
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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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Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory
#stableisotopes
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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...
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August 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Our new paper is out:
Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory
#stableisotopes
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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...
August 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
More late Neolithic animals moving about, telling their stories through science: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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....
August 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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....
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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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"Emerging strontium isoscapes of Anatolia (Türkiye): new datasets and perspectives in bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr baseline studies"
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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 ...
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June 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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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"Emerging strontium isoscapes of Anatolia (Türkiye): new datasets and perspectives in bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr baseline studies"
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
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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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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 …
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June 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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…
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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
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#OpenAccess #AminoAcids #Neolithic #StableIsotopeAnalyses
May 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
High-resolution compound-specific δ15N isotope dietary study of humans from the Scottish Mesolithic and Neolithic
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#OpenAccess #AminoAcids #Neolithic #StableIsotopeAnalyses
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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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High‐resolution compound‐specific δ15N isotope dietary study of humans from the Scottish Mesolithic and Neolithic
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May 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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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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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@brusselsbioarch.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social
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@brusselsbioarch.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social
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...
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January 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
@brusselsbioarch.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social
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@brusselsbioarch.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social
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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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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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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...
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December 31, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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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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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January 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
New paper from recent graduated PhD student Valentina Martinioa on compound-specific analysis from the iconic Greek site of Franchti Cave. Congratulations Valentina!
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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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...
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December 29, 2024 at 3:53 PM
#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...
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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
Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon!
Paper here👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001
December 11, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001
Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon!
Paper here👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001
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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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#HEASPublications
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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November 28, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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'
www.heas.at/research/pub...
#HEASPublications
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'
www.heas.at/research/pub...
#HEASPublications
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A quick plug for the GB isotope biosphere map and its video explanation update.
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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
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November 23, 2024 at 12:44 PM
A quick plug for the GB isotope biosphere map and its video explanation update.
www.bgs.ac.uk/datasets/bio...
www.bgs.ac.uk/datasets/bio...
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Workshop announcement, dec. 11th. Human - animal relations, including lots of aDNA and some isotopes. Groningen and online: www.archonline.nl/december-202...
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...
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November 22, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Workshop announcement, dec. 11th. Human - animal relations, including lots of aDNA and some isotopes. Groningen and online: www.archonline.nl/december-202...
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✨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
November 14, 2024 at 3:14 AM
✨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