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Who was buried at Stonehenge? (2009)
Journal Article
Parker Pearson, M., Chamberlain, A., Jay, M., Marshall, P., Pollard, J., Richards, C., …Welham, K. (2009). Who was buried at Stonehenge?. Antiquity, 83(319), 23-39. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00098069

Stonehenge continues to surprise us. In this new study of the twentieth-century excavations, together with the precise radiocarbon dating that is now possible, the authors propose that the site started life in the early third millennium cal BC as a c... Read More about Who was buried at Stonehenge?.

Iron Age breastfeeding practices in Britain: isotopic evidence from Wetwang, East Yorkshire (2008)
Journal Article
Jay, M., Fuller, B., Richards, M., Knüsel, C., & King, S. (2008). Iron Age breastfeeding practices in Britain: isotopic evidence from Wetwang, East Yorkshire. American journal of physical anthropology, 136(3), 327-337. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20815

We present here the results of carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis of bone collagen undertaken on all skeletal remains of infants and young children below the age of six years (n = 35) from the internationally important British cemetery site at Wet... Read More about Iron Age breastfeeding practices in Britain: isotopic evidence from Wetwang, East Yorkshire.

Iron Age diet at Glastonbury Lake Village: the isotopic evidence for negligible aquatic resource consumption (2008)
Journal Article
Jay, M. (2008). Iron Age diet at Glastonbury Lake Village: the isotopic evidence for negligible aquatic resource consumption. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 27(2), 201-216. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0092.2008.00304.x

The British Iron Age site at Glastonbury Lake Village in Somerset is well known for the extensive and prolonged excavations, the comprehensive publications and the superb preservation of organic remains. The environmental material recovered has led t... Read More about Iron Age diet at Glastonbury Lake Village: the isotopic evidence for negligible aquatic resource consumption.

British Iron Age Diet: stable isotopes and other evidence (2007)
Journal Article
Jay, M., & Richards, M. (2007). British Iron Age Diet: stable isotopes and other evidence. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 73, 169-190

This paper presents the results of new research into British Iron Age diet. Specifically, it summarizes the existing evidence and compares this with new evidence obtained from stable isotope analysis. The isotope data come from both humans and animal... Read More about British Iron Age Diet: stable isotopes and other evidence.

Diet in the Iron Age cemetery population at Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire, UK: carbon and nitrogen stable isotope evidence (2006)
Journal Article
Jay, M., & Richards, M. (2006). Diet in the Iron Age cemetery population at Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire, UK: carbon and nitrogen stable isotope evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33(5), 653-662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2005.09.020

This paper reports d13C and d15N values for human and animal bone collagen from the middle Iron Age site at Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire, UK. The data indicate a human diet which was high in animal protein, with no evidence for any significant marin... Read More about Diet in the Iron Age cemetery population at Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire, UK: carbon and nitrogen stable isotope evidence.