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Identity, gender, religion and economy: New isotope and radiocarbon evidence for marine resource intensification in early historic Orkney, Scotland, UK (2004)
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Barrett, J., & Richards, M. (2004). Identity, gender, religion and economy: New isotope and radiocarbon evidence for marine resource intensification in early historic Orkney, Scotland, UK. European Journal of Archaeology, 7(3), 249-271. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461957104056502

Stable isotope measurements and radiocarbon dates on 54 burials from northern Scotland document trends in marine protein consumption from the late Iron Age to the end of the Middle Ages. They illuminate how local environmental and cultural contingenc... Read More about Identity, gender, religion and economy: New isotope and radiocarbon evidence for marine resource intensification in early historic Orkney, Scotland, UK.

Fermented beverages of pre- and proto-historic China (2004)
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McGovern, P., Zhang, J., Tang, J., Zhang, Z., Hall, G., Moreau, R., …Wang, C. (2004). Fermented beverages of pre- and proto-historic China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101(51), 17593-17598. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407921102

Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed into pottery jars from the early Neolithic village of Jiahu in Henan province in China have revealed that a mixed fermented beverage of rice, honey, and fruit (hawthorn fruit and/or grape) was being prod... Read More about Fermented beverages of pre- and proto-historic China.

Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchì, the first ancient body of a man from a North American glacier: reconstructing his last days by intestinal and biomolecular analyses (2004)
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Dickson, J., Richards, M., Hebda, R., Mudie, P., Beattie, O., Ramsay, S., …Wigen, R. (2004). Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchì, the first ancient body of a man from a North American glacier: reconstructing his last days by intestinal and biomolecular analyses. Holocene, 14(4), 481-486. https://doi.org/10.1191/0959683604hl742rp

We report on scientific analyses of the only well-preserved ancient human body ever recovered from a North American glacier. The body was found high in the mountains of northwest British Columbia at about 80 km from the nearest point of the strongly... Read More about Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchì, the first ancient body of a man from a North American glacier: reconstructing his last days by intestinal and biomolecular analyses.

Bone as a stable isotope archive for local climatic information (2004)
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Hedges, R., Richards, M., & Stevens, R. (2004). Bone as a stable isotope archive for local climatic information. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23(7-8), 959-965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2003.06.022

This brief review outlines the contribution that the study of stable isotope composition in bone can make to palaeoclimatic investigation, with the focus almost entirely restricted to the last 50,000 years in NW Europe. Bone can provide a useful arch... Read More about Bone as a stable isotope archive for local climatic information.

Régime et Société d’après l’analyse des Isotopes Stables: l’exemple de la population de Can Reinés (Mallorca, Espagne, 600 ap. J.C.) (2004)
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Garcia, E., Subirà, M., & Richards, M. (2004). Régime et Société d’après l’analyse des Isotopes Stables: l’exemple de la population de Can Reinés (Mallorca, Espagne, 600 ap. J.C.). Antropo (Bilbao), 7, 171-176

This study presents the results of the analysis of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotopes of bone collagen extracted from 39 human remains and 20 animal remains, found at an archaeological site on the island of Majorca, Spain. The population studied i... Read More about Régime et Société d’après l’analyse des Isotopes Stables: l’exemple de la population de Can Reinés (Mallorca, Espagne, 600 ap. J.C.).