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A multi-isotope (C, N, O, Sr, Pb) study of Iron Age and Roman period skeletons from east Edinburgh, Scotland exploring the relationship between decapitation burials and geographical origins (2019)
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Moore, J., Rose, A., Anderson, S., Evans, J., Nowell, G., Grocke, D., …Montgomery, J. (2020). A multi-isotope (C, N, O, Sr, Pb) study of Iron Age and Roman period skeletons from east Edinburgh, Scotland exploring the relationship between decapitation burials and geographical origins. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 29, Article 102075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102075

Recent excavations at Musselburgh, East Lothian (Scotland) revealed twelve skeletons, radiocarbon dated to the Iron Age and Roman period. The high incidence of skeletal trauma characteristic of decapitation in those of Roman date makes this site unus... Read More about A multi-isotope (C, N, O, Sr, Pb) study of Iron Age and Roman period skeletons from east Edinburgh, Scotland exploring the relationship between decapitation burials and geographical origins.

At the world’s edge: reconstructing diet and geographic origins in medieval Iceland using isotope and trace element analyses (2019)
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Walser, J. W. I., Kristjánsdóttir, S., Gröcke, D. R., Gowland, R., Jakob, T., Nowell, G., …Montgomery, J. (2020). At the world’s edge: reconstructing diet and geographic origins in medieval Iceland using isotope and trace element analyses. American journal of physical anthropology, 171(1), 142-163. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23973

Objectives. A multi-isotope study was conducted on individuals buried at Skriðuklaustur monastery (AD 1493–1554) to investigate their geographic origins and dietary composition. Comparative material from individuals excavated from Skeljastaðir, an in... Read More about At the world’s edge: reconstructing diet and geographic origins in medieval Iceland using isotope and trace element analyses.

190Pt-186Os geochronometer reveals open system behaviour of 190Pt-4He isotope system (2019)
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Luguet, A., Nowell, G., Pushkarev, E., Ballhaus, C., Wirth, R., Schreiber, A., & Gottman, I. (2019). 190Pt-186Os geochronometer reveals open system behaviour of 190Pt-4He isotope system. Geochemical perspectives letters, 2, 44-48. https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.1924

Platinum Group Minerals are typically dated using the 187Re-187Os and 190Pt-186Os isotope systems and more recently using the 190Pt-4He geochronometer. The 187Re-187Os and 190Pt-186Os compositions of Pt-alloys from the Kondyor Zoned Ultramafic Comple... Read More about 190Pt-186Os geochronometer reveals open system behaviour of 190Pt-4He isotope system.

Kimberlites reveal 2.5-billion-year evolution of a deep, isolated mantle reservoir (2019)
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Woodhead, J., Hergt, J., Giuliani, A., Maas, R., Phillips, D., Pearson, D. G., & Nowell, G. (2019). Kimberlites reveal 2.5-billion-year evolution of a deep, isolated mantle reservoir. Nature, 573(7775), 578-581. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1574-8

The widely accepted paradigm of Earth's geochemical evolution states that the successive extraction of melts from the mantle over the past 4.5 billion years formed the continental crust, and produced at least one complementary melt-depleted reservoir... Read More about Kimberlites reveal 2.5-billion-year evolution of a deep, isolated mantle reservoir.

Extensive crustal extraction in Earth’s early history inferred from molybdenum isotopes (2019)
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McCoy-West, A. J., Chowdhury, P., Burton, K. W., Sossi, P., Nowell, G. M., Fitton, J. G., …Williams, H. M. (2019). Extensive crustal extraction in Earth’s early history inferred from molybdenum isotopes. Nature Geoscience, 12, 946-951. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0451-2

Estimates of the volume of the earliest crust based on zircon ages and radiogenic isotopes remain equivocal. Stable isotope systems, such as molybdenum, have the potential to provide further constraints but remain underused due to the lack of complem... Read More about Extensive crustal extraction in Earth’s early history inferred from molybdenum isotopes.

"Investigation of a Historical Crime Scene" - A Comprehensive Study of an Unusual Burial in the Calvinist Church of Sóly, Hungary (2019)
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László, O., Millard, A. R., Gröcke, D., Rácz, M., & Nowell, G. (2019). "Investigation of a Historical Crime Scene" - A Comprehensive Study of an Unusual Burial in the Calvinist Church of Sóly, Hungary. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 25, 320-330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.04.015

A rescue excavation in the Chapel of the Presbyterian Church of Sóly, explored a grave of two men in an unusual position among 20 other child burials in 2008-2009. The burial is dated to the early modern (16-17th century AD) Period. The 45-50-year-ol... Read More about "Investigation of a Historical Crime Scene" - A Comprehensive Study of an Unusual Burial in the Calvinist Church of Sóly, Hungary.

A Meeting In The Forest: Hunters And Farmers At The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’, Wiltshire (2018)
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Gron, K. J., Rowley-Conwy, P., Fernandez-Dominguez, E., Gröcke, D. R., Montgomery, J., Nowell, G. M., & Patterson, W. P. (2018). A Meeting In The Forest: Hunters And Farmers At The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’, Wiltshire. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 84, 111-144. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2018.15

The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’ is an Early Neolithic pit located just south-east of Stonehenge, Wiltshire. Excavations recovered a faunal assemblage unique in its composition, consisting of both wild and domestic species, as well as large quantities of cera... Read More about A Meeting In The Forest: Hunters And Farmers At The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’, Wiltshire.

Evidence for a 200 km thick diamond-bearing root beneath the Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada? Diamond indicator mineral geochemistry from the Horn Plateau and Trout Lake regions (2018)
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Poitras, S. P., Pearson, D. G., Hardman, M. F., Stachel, T., Nowell, G. M., & Cairns, S. (2018). Evidence for a 200 km thick diamond-bearing root beneath the Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada? Diamond indicator mineral geochemistry from the Horn Plateau and Trout Lake regions. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(S2), 719-736. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-018-0641-4

The Central Mackenzie Valley (CMV) area of Northwest Territories is underlain by Precambrian basement belonging to the North American Craton. The potential of this area to host kimberlitic diamond deposits is relatively high judging from the seismolo... Read More about Evidence for a 200 km thick diamond-bearing root beneath the Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada? Diamond indicator mineral geochemistry from the Horn Plateau and Trout Lake regions.

Highly siderophile elements mobility in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath southern Patagonia (2018)
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Tassara, S., González-Jiménez, J. M., Reich, M., Saunders, E., Luguet, A., Morata, D., …Corgne, A. (2018). Highly siderophile elements mobility in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath southern Patagonia. Lithos, 314-315, 579-596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2018.06.022

Peridotite xenoliths collected from alkali basalts in the Argentinian Patagonia reveal the existence of an ancient depleted Paleoproterozoic mantle that records a subsequent multistage metasomatic history. Metasomatism is associated with carbonatite-... Read More about Highly siderophile elements mobility in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath southern Patagonia.