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Isobiographies and Archaeology Beyond Long-Term Ethnography: Life History Reconstruction Using Stable Isotopes
Inspired by (Jochim, American Anthropologist 93:308–321, 1991) “Archeology as Long-Term Ethnography”, this paper examines the role of stable isotope...
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Pb Isotopes and Human Mobility: Natural, Cultural, or Diagenetic Signal?
Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and oxygen (δ18O) isotopes are widely used in the archaeological sciences to decipher origin and mobility patterns of humans...
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Epilogue: Stable Isotope Analysis in Archaeology – Current Perspectives and Future Directions
This chapter discusses the current state and future directions of the application of stable isotopes to archaeological materials. New technologies...
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Human-Animal Interactions in the Pre-colonial Americas: Insights from Stable Carbon Isotope Analysis
The study of human-animal relationships provides insight and context to better understand the motivations behind past human behavior. Stable carbon...
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Stable Isotope Analyses and Human Behavior: A Science Driven by Ideas and Tools
I am particularly pleased to write this short piece for two reasons. First, the editors were both my graduate students at UCSD, and I feel privileged...
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Stable Isotope Evidence for Breastfeeding and Weaning Variables in Past Populations: Infant and Child Feeding in Ancient Siberian Foragers
Over thirty years of stable isotope research about the breastfeeding and weaning practices of past human populations has contributed a vast amount to...
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Stable Isotope Paleoecology of the Baynunah Formation
The Baynunah Formation contains the only known late Miocene terrestrial fossils from the Arabian Peninsula. Based on renewed field work since 2002,...
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Isotopes, Domestication, and Past Animal Husbandry Practices: A Review of the Formative Studies
The domestication of animals marked an important shift in human behaviour that revolutionized economic, social, and cultural aspects of prehistoric...
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Investigating Isotopic Niche Space: Using rKIN for Stable Isotope Studies in Archaeology
Archaeological applications of stable isotope data have become increasingly prevalent, and the use of these data continues to expand rapidly....
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Isotopic Analyses in the Andes: From the Macro- to Micro-scale
Substantial environmental and geologic variability in the Andes of South America make this region well-suited for isotopic paleomobility studies...
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Ratting out the Past: Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes in Polynesia Through Stable Isotope Analysis of the Pacific Rat (Rattus exulans)
The pre-contact arrival of humans to Polynesian islands brought about rapid, long-lasting anthropogenic impacts to island ecosystems. Forest...
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Ysterfontein 1, South Africa
Ysterfontein 1 is a collapsed coastal rock shelter that hosts a Middle Stone Age (MSA) shell midden deposit presenting evidence of coastal adaptation...
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Cultural Landscapes and Long-Term Human Ecology
Bringing together an international set of scholars, this volume presents integrative theoretical and methodological perspectives linking two...
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The Potential of Dental Calculus as a Novel Source of Biological Isotopic Data
Stable isotope analysis has become an essential tool in investigations of ancient migration and paleodietary reconstruction. Because the...
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Stable Isotope Analysis in Archaeological Science and Mummy Studies
Isotope analysis using bone collagen, bone apatite, and tooth enamel is widely performed to reconstruct the histories of societies and the...
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Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models
Palaeodietary reconstruction using stable isotope analysis is becoming increasingly common, as is the practice of using mixing models to quantify...
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The Transition to Agriculture
A review of ideas about the spread of agriculture from the Near East into Europe introduces a bioarchaeological investigation of the question....
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Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion and Intensification: Malthusian and Boserupian Dynamics
Despite years of debate, the factors that control the long-term carrying capacity of human populations are not well understood. In this paper, we...
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Human Paleodiet on Tutuila Island, American Samoa: Isotopic Evidence of Dietary Continuity Through the Medieval Warm Period-Little Ice Age Transition
Paleodietary research in West Polynesia has traditionally focused on evidence from zooarchaeological assemblages, land use patterns, and stone tool...
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Feeding Patterns and Management of Dogs and Chickens from Ancient to Medieval Sites of Ukraine: A Stable Isotope Analysis
In an attempt to have a glimpse at the past trophic relationships of human-dependent animals, particularly those that were able to receive or find...