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Oxygen Isotope Values in the Maya Region

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Isotopic Proveniencing and Mobility

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Bioarchaeologists use oxygen isotope variation in ancient Mesoamerica to reconstruct past behaviors such as migration and weaning age. The increasing number of studies merits closer examination of unresolved problems with the method. Examples in the Maya region highlight several key issues, including differential incorporation of δ18O in body tissues that impact comparability of studies from different labs, as well as the different treatment protocols they use. In addition, the efficacy of modeling to predict both water and human values in archaeological populations is uncertain. Other issues, such as the effects of seasonality and climate change on human isotope values, remain underexplored. In some cases, there appears to be more variability within populations than among them. δ18O values may best be used with caution and applied in conjunction with other lines of evidence.

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Permission to export samples is courtesy of the Institute of Archaeology in Belize and Xunantunich project directors Richard Leventhal and Jason Yaeger. Xunantunich bone isotope values were processed under the direction of Stanley Ambrose at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and enamel values by David Dettman at the University of Arizona. Work was done at the UW-Madison Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry with the assistance of T. Douglas Price and James Burton of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Funding from a Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science Eloise Gerry Fellowship provided partial support for this research. Thank you to Asta Rand, Kristin Jerich, and anonymous reviewers for their useful advice and edits and to Juan Palomo for the permission to cite his data.

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Freiwald, C. (2023). Oxygen Isotope Values in the Maya Region. In: Price, T.D. (eds) Isotopic Proveniencing and Mobility. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25722-3_3

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