Investigating population movement by stable isotope analysis: a report from Britain

Budd, P.; Millard, A.; Chenery, C.; Lucy, S.; Roberts, C.

Abstract

Stable isotopes present in local ground water get into people's teeth before they are 12 years old, and act as a signature to the area where they grew up (and drank the water). In a review of recent work in Britain the authors show the huge potential of this method for detecting population movement – and thus ultimately for investigating questions of migration, exogamy and slavery.

Citation

Budd, P., Millard, A., Chenery, C., Lucy, S., & Roberts, C. (2004). Investigating population movement by stable isotope analysis: a report from Britain. Antiquity, 78(299), 127-141. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x0009298x

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2004
• Deposit Date: Nov 17, 2008
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 17, 2011
• Journal: Antiquity
• Print ISSN: 0003-598X
• Electronic ISSN: 1745-1744
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 78
• Issue: 299
• Pages: 127-141
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x0009298x
• Keywords: Oxygen, Strontium, Isotopes, Residency, Mobility.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1599540
• Publisher URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9436734&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0003598X0009298X