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Neolithisation through bone: Stable isotope analysis of human and faunal remains from Syltholm II, Lolland, Denmark (2024)
Journal Article
Gron, K. J., Gröcke, D. R., Groß, D., Rowley-Conwy, P., Robson, H. K., & Montgomery, J. (2024). Neolithisation through bone: Stable isotope analysis of human and faunal remains from Syltholm II, Lolland, Denmark. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 53, Article 104384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104384

Despite an increasing number of studies, the application of stable sulfur (δ34S) isotope analysis to prehistoric bone collagen remains in its infancy. Conventionally, stable sulfur isotope compositions reflect coastal proximity and the interaction be... Read More about Neolithisation through bone: Stable isotope analysis of human and faunal remains from Syltholm II, Lolland, Denmark.

The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour (2023)
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Gowland, R. L., Caffell, A. C., Quade, L., Levene, A., Millard, A. R., Holst, M., …Alexander, M. M. (2023). The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour. PLoS ONE, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284970

Child labour is the most common form of child abuse in the world today, with almost half of child workers employed in hazardous industries. The large-scale employment of children during the rapid industrialisation of the late 18th and early 19th cent... Read More about The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour.

Kinship practices in Early Iron Age South-east Europe: genetic and isotopic analysis of burials from the Dolge njive barrow cemetery, Dolenjska, Slovenia (2023)
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Armit, I., Fischer, C., Koon, H., Nicholls, R., Olalde, I., Rohland, N., …Reich, D. (2023). Kinship practices in Early Iron Age South-east Europe: genetic and isotopic analysis of burials from the Dolge njive barrow cemetery, Dolenjska, Slovenia. Antiquity, 97(392), 403-418. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.2

The burial of multiple individuals within a single funerary monument invites speculation about the relationships between the deceased: were they chosen on the basis of status, gender or relatedness, for example? Here, the authors present the results... Read More about Kinship practices in Early Iron Age South-east Europe: genetic and isotopic analysis of burials from the Dolge njive barrow cemetery, Dolenjska, Slovenia.

Provenancing antiquarian museum collections using multi-isotope analysis (2023)
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Neil, S., Evans, J., Montgomery, J., Schulting, R., & Scarre, C. (2023). Provenancing antiquarian museum collections using multi-isotope analysis. OSJ. Open Science journal, 10(2), Article 220798. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220798

Many of the most significant archaeological sites in Europe were excavated by antiquarians over one hundred years ago. Modern museum collections therefore frequently contain human remains that were recovered during the nineteenth and early twentieth... Read More about Provenancing antiquarian museum collections using multi-isotope analysis.

Sr analyses from only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in Britain illuminate early Viking journey with horse and dog across the North Sea (2023)
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Loeffelmann, T., Janet Montgomery, J., Richards, J. D., Johnson, L. J., Claeys, P., & Snoeck, C. (2023). Sr analyses from only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in Britain illuminate early Viking journey with horse and dog across the North Sea. PLoS ONE, 18(2), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280589

The barrow cemetery at Heath Wood, Derbyshire, is the only known Viking cremation cemetery in the British Isles. It dates to the late ninth century and is associated with the over-wintering of the Viking Great Army at nearby Repton in AD 873–4. Only... Read More about Sr analyses from only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in Britain illuminate early Viking journey with horse and dog across the North Sea.

Sex and Gender in the Mesolithic: Adults and Children from the Strøby Egede Burial, Køge Bugt, Denmark (2022)
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Gron, K. J., Meiklejohn, C., Pedersen, K. B., Stewart, N. A., Alexandersen, V., Sørensen, L., & Montgomery, J. (2022). Sex and Gender in the Mesolithic: Adults and Children from the Strøby Egede Burial, Køge Bugt, Denmark. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 88, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2022.7

In the summer of 1986 a mass grave was discovered along the bank of the river Tryggevælde Å where it empties into Køge Bugt, the bay south of modern Copenhagen, Denmark. The human remains, dating to the late Mesolithic Ertebølle culture, consisted of... Read More about Sex and Gender in the Mesolithic: Adults and Children from the Strøby Egede Burial, Køge Bugt, Denmark.

The forest effect: Biosphere 87Sr/86Sr shifts due to changing land use and the implications for migration studies (2022)
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Johnson, L., Evans, J., Montgomery, J., & Chenery, C. (2022). The forest effect: Biosphere 87Sr/86Sr shifts due to changing land use and the implications for migration studies. Science of the Total Environment, 839, Article 156083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156083

This study documents a transect of 87Sr/86Sr values from a variety of plant, soil and rock samples across the ancient woodland of the Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve (SFNNR) and into adjoining farmland in Britain. All samples were collected f... Read More about The forest effect: Biosphere 87Sr/86Sr shifts due to changing land use and the implications for migration studies.

Creating communities of care: Sex estimation and mobilityhistories of adolescents buried in the cemetery of St. MaryMagdalen leprosarium (Winchester, England) (2022)
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Filipek, K., Roberts, C., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R., Moore, J., Tucker, K., & Evans, J. (2022). Creating communities of care: Sex estimation and mobilityhistories of adolescents buried in the cemetery of St. MaryMagdalen leprosarium (Winchester, England). American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 178(1), 108-123. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24498

Objectives: This study examines the biological sex and geographical origins of adolescents buried at the St Mary Magdalen leprosarium (Winchester, UK). The data are combined with archaeological and palaeopathological evidence to broaden the understan... Read More about Creating communities of care: Sex estimation and mobilityhistories of adolescents buried in the cemetery of St. MaryMagdalen leprosarium (Winchester, England).

Strontium isotope identification of possible rural immigrants in 17th century mass graves at St. Gertrude Church cemetery in Riga, Latvia (2022)
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Petersone‐Gordina, E., Montgomery, J., Millard, A. R., Nowell, G., Peterkin, J., Roberts, C. A., …Zelčs, V. (2022). Strontium isotope identification of possible rural immigrants in 17th century mass graves at St. Gertrude Church cemetery in Riga, Latvia. Archaeometry, https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12759

The aims of this study were to explore the origins of 19 children buried in two mass graves and the general cemetery at the post-medieval St Gertrude Church cemetery in Riga, Latvia, using strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr), and to establish loca... Read More about Strontium isotope identification of possible rural immigrants in 17th century mass graves at St. Gertrude Church cemetery in Riga, Latvia.

A Comparison of Dietary Isotopes in Pulp Stones and Incremental Dentine from Early Neolithic Individuals of the Whitwell Long Cairn, England (2022)
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Ostrum, B., Gröcke, D. R., & Montgomery, J. (2022). A Comparison of Dietary Isotopes in Pulp Stones and Incremental Dentine from Early Neolithic Individuals of the Whitwell Long Cairn, England. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 177(4), 769-783. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24479

Objectives: This study investigates if palaeodietary information can be obtained from pulp stones through stable isotope analysis, presents a method for their extraction from tooth samples, and assesses their utility as a source of paleodietary infor... Read More about A Comparison of Dietary Isotopes in Pulp Stones and Incremental Dentine from Early Neolithic Individuals of the Whitwell Long Cairn, England.

Combining dental calculus with isotope analysis in the Alps: New evidence from the Roman and medieval cemeteries of Lamon, Italy (2021)
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Fiorin, E., Moore, J., Montgomery, J., Mariotti Lippi, M., Nowell, G., & Forlin, P. (2023). Combining dental calculus with isotope analysis in the Alps: New evidence from the Roman and medieval cemeteries of Lamon, Italy. Quaternary International, 653–654, 89-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.11.022

This study presents the results of integrated isotopic and dental calculus analyses of a number of individuals buried in two cemeteries of Roman and medieval chronology in Lamon(Belluno), northern Italy. Eleven individuals from the Roman cemetery of... Read More about Combining dental calculus with isotope analysis in the Alps: New evidence from the Roman and medieval cemeteries of Lamon, Italy.

Illness and inclusion: Mobility histories of adolescents with leprosy from Anglo‐Scandinavian Norwich (Eastern England) (2021)
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Filipek, K. L., Roberts, C. A., Gowland, R. L., Montgomery, J., & Evans, J. A. (2021). Illness and inclusion: Mobility histories of adolescents with leprosy from Anglo‐Scandinavian Norwich (Eastern England). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 31(6), 1180-1191. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3029

Leprosy is one of the most notorious diseases in history, widely associated with social stigma and exclusion. This study builds on previous work to reevaluate the medicohistorical evidence for social stigma in relation to leprosy. This is achieved by... Read More about Illness and inclusion: Mobility histories of adolescents with leprosy from Anglo‐Scandinavian Norwich (Eastern England).

Poisoned pregnancies: consequences of prenatal lead exposure in relation to infant mortality in the Roman Empire. (2021)
Book Chapter
Moore, J., Williams-Ward, M., Filipek, K., Gowland, R., & Montgomery, J. (2021). Poisoned pregnancies: consequences of prenatal lead exposure in relation to infant mortality in the Roman Empire. In E. J. Kendall, & R. Kendall (Eds.), The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time (137-158). Routledge

Large families were often a desired outcome of Roman marriages; laws were even passed to encourage procreation. Despite this, large families were not the norm. The high infant mortality, miscarriage and stillbirth rates throughout this period probabl... Read More about Poisoned pregnancies: consequences of prenatal lead exposure in relation to infant mortality in the Roman Empire..

Death Metal: Evidence for the impact of lead poisoning on childhood health within the Roman Empire (2021)
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Moore, J., Filipek, K., Kalenderian, V., Gowland, R., Hamilton, E., Evans, J., & Montgomery, J. (2021). Death Metal: Evidence for the impact of lead poisoning on childhood health within the Roman Empire. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 31(5), 846-856. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3001

The use of lead was ubiquitous throughout the Roman Empire, including material for water pipes, eating vessels, medicine, and even as a sweetener for wine. The toxicity of lead is well established today, resulting in long-term psychological and neuro... Read More about Death Metal: Evidence for the impact of lead poisoning on childhood health within the Roman Empire.

Sex estimation of teeth at different developmental stages using dimorphic enamel peptide analysis (2021)
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Gowland, R., Stewart, N. A., Crowder, K. D., Hodson, C., Shaw, H., Gron, K. J., & Montgomery, J. (2021). Sex estimation of teeth at different developmental stages using dimorphic enamel peptide analysis. American journal of physical anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24231

Objectives This study tests, for the first time, the applicability of a new method of sex estimation utilizing enamel peptides on a sample of deciduous and permanent teeth at different stages of mineralization, from nonadults of unknown sex, includin... Read More about Sex estimation of teeth at different developmental stages using dimorphic enamel peptide analysis.

Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650: A prosopographical approach to a skeletal assemblage (2020)
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Millard, A. R., Annis, R. G., Caffell, A. C., Dodd, L. L., Fischer, R., Gerrard, C. M., …Speller, C. F. (2020). Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650: A prosopographical approach to a skeletal assemblage. PLoS ONE, 15(12), Article e0243369. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243369

After the Battle Dunbar between English and Scottish forces in 1650, captured Scottish soldiers were imprisoned in Durham and many hundreds died there within a few weeks. The partial skeletal remains of 28 of these men were discovered in 2013. Buildi... Read More about Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650: A prosopographical approach to a skeletal assemblage.

Isotopic evidence for human movement into central England during the Early Neolithic (2020)
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Neil, S., Evans, J., Montgomery, J., & Scarre, C. (2020). Isotopic evidence for human movement into central England during the Early Neolithic. European Journal of Archaeology, 23(4), 512-529. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2020.22

Isotope ratios of tooth enamel from ten Early Neolithic individuals buried in a long cairn at Whitwell in central England were measured to determine where they sourced their childhood diet. Five individuals have low Sr concentrations (11–66 ppm) and... Read More about Isotopic evidence for human movement into central England during the Early Neolithic.

The Origins of Decorated Ostrich Eggs in the Ancient Mediterranean and Middle East (2020)
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Hodos, T., Cartwright, C., Montgomery, J., Nowell, G., Crowder, K., Fletcher, A., & Goenster, Y. (2020). The Origins of Decorated Ostrich Eggs in the Ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. Antiquity, 94(374), 381-400. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.14

Decorated ostrich eggs were traded around the Mediterranean during the Bronze and Iron Ages. Research on their origins has focused primarily on decorative techniques and iconography to characterise the producers, workshops and trade routes, thereby e... Read More about The Origins of Decorated Ostrich Eggs in the Ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.

Romans, barbarians and foederati: New biomolecular data and a possible region of origin for “Headless Romans” and other burials from Britain (2020)
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Crowder, K. D., Montgomery, J., Filipek, K. L., & Evans, J. A. (2020). Romans, barbarians and foederati: New biomolecular data and a possible region of origin for “Headless Romans” and other burials from Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 30, Article 102180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102180

The Archiud “Hânsuri” cemetery in Transylvania, Romania is the burial site of a barbarian population from the Kingdom of the Gepids (4th–7th Cent AD). Previous work examining the dietary isotope life-histories and palaeopathological profiles of the n... Read More about Romans, barbarians and foederati: New biomolecular data and a possible region of origin for “Headless Romans” and other burials from Britain.

Investigating dietary life histories and mobility of children buried in St Gertrude Church Cemetery, Riga, Latvia (15th– 17th centuries AD) (2020)
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Petersone‐Gordina, E., Montgomery, J., Millard, A., Roberts, C., Gröcke, D., & Gerhards, G. (2020). Investigating dietary life histories and mobility of children buried in St Gertrude Church Cemetery, Riga, Latvia (15th– 17th centuries AD). Archaeometry, 62(S1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12520

Carbon and nitrogen isotope profiles were obtained from incremental dentine analysis of 19 non‐adults from a cemetery in Riga, Latvia. The research compared the life histories and diet between people buried in two mass graves and the general cemetery... Read More about Investigating dietary life histories and mobility of children buried in St Gertrude Church Cemetery, Riga, Latvia (15th– 17th centuries AD).

Strontium isotopic analysis (2019)
Book Chapter
Montgomery, J., Evans, J., & Towers, J. (2019). Strontium isotopic analysis. In M. Parker Pearson, A. Chamberlain, M. Jay, M. Richards, J. Evans, & A. Sheridan (Eds.), The Beaker People: Isotopes, Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric Britain (371-408). Oxbow Books

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.

Contribution of strontium to the human diet from querns and millstones: an experiment in digestive strontium isotope uptake (2019)
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Johnson, L., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., & Hamilton, E. (2019). Contribution of strontium to the human diet from querns and millstones: an experiment in digestive strontium isotope uptake. Archaeometry, 61(6), 1366-1381. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12485

The question of whether rock grit ingested unintentionally from querns, metates or millstones or deliberately through pica or geophagy is bioaccessible in the human gut has not been addressed in archaeological Sr-isotope studies. This study employed... Read More about Contribution of strontium to the human diet from querns and millstones: an experiment in digestive strontium isotope uptake.

Childhood “stress” and stable isotope life-histories in Transylvania (2019)
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Crowder, K., Montgomery, J., Gröcke, D., & Filipek, K. (2019). Childhood “stress” and stable isotope life-histories in Transylvania. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 29(4), 644-653. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2760

Aims and Objectives: Macroscopic skeletal analysis and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses were employed to examine the relationship between skeletal “stress” lesions and changes in the isotopic life‐history profiles of six non‐adults from th... Read More about Childhood “stress” and stable isotope life-histories in Transylvania.

Isotopic analysis of the Blick Mead dog: A proxy for the dietary reconstruction and mobility of Mesolithic British hunter-gatherers (2019)
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Rogers, B., Gron, K., Montgomery, J., Rowley-Conwy, P., Nowell, G., Peterkin, J., & Jacques, D. (2019). Isotopic analysis of the Blick Mead dog: A proxy for the dietary reconstruction and mobility of Mesolithic British hunter-gatherers. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 24, 712-720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.022

A single domestic dog (Canis familiaris) tooth was recovered from the Mesolithic site of Blick Mead in the Stonehenge landscape. As no human remains were recovered from the site, the dog tooth provides a potential proxy for reconstructing human diet.... Read More about Isotopic analysis of the Blick Mead dog: A proxy for the dietary reconstruction and mobility of Mesolithic British hunter-gatherers.

Continuity and individuality in Medieval Hereford, England: A stable isotope approach to bulk bone and incremental dentine (2018)
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Halldórsdóttir, H., Rogers, B., Di Renno, F., Müldner, G., Gröcke, D., Barnicle, E., …Montgomery, J. (2019). Continuity and individuality in Medieval Hereford, England: A stable isotope approach to bulk bone and incremental dentine. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 23, 800-809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.12.006

In this study, bulk bone collagen carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope data from 49 individuals, recovered from two Medieval burial grounds in Hereford, England, are coupled with incremental dentine data from five individuals with high δ15N bone... Read More about Continuity and individuality in Medieval Hereford, England: A stable isotope approach to bulk bone and incremental dentine.

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.

From Field to Fish: Tracking Changes in Diet on Entry to Two Medieval Friaries in Northern England (2018)
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Kancle, L., Montgomery, J., Gröcke, D. R., & Caffell, A. (2018). From Field to Fish: Tracking Changes in Diet on Entry to Two Medieval Friaries in Northern England. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 22, 264-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.07.018

Members of religious orders during the later medieval period in Britain were expected to adhere to strict rules governing their daily lives which restricted their consumption of meat. This study aims to investigate whether this switch to a ‘religious... Read More about From Field to Fish: Tracking Changes in Diet on Entry to Two Medieval Friaries in Northern England.

Crystallographic texture and mineral concentration quantification of developing and mature human incisal enamel (2018)
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Al-Mosawi, M., Davis, G. R., Bushby, A., Montgomery, J., Beaumont, J., & Al-Jawad, M. (2018). Crystallographic texture and mineral concentration quantification of developing and mature human incisal enamel. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 14449. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32425-y

For human dental enamel, what is the precise mineralization progression spatially and the precise timing of mineralization? This is an important question in the fundamental understanding of matrix-mediated biomineralization events, but in particular... Read More about Crystallographic texture and mineral concentration quantification of developing and mature human incisal enamel.

Comparing apples and oranges: why infant bone collagen may not reflect dietary intake in the same way as dentine collagen (2018)
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Beaumont, J., Craig Atkins, E., Buckberry, J., Haydock, H., Horne, P., Howcroft, R., …Montgomery, J. (2018). Comparing apples and oranges: why infant bone collagen may not reflect dietary intake in the same way as dentine collagen. American journal of physical anthropology, 167(3), 524-540. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23682

Objectives: Recent developments in incremental dentine analysis allowing increased temporal resolution for tissues formed during the first 1,000 days of life have cast doubt on the veracity of weaning studies using bone collagen carbon (δ13C) and nit... Read More about Comparing apples and oranges: why infant bone collagen may not reflect dietary intake in the same way as dentine collagen.

Isotopic evidence for landscape use and the role of causewayed enclosures during the earlier Neolithic in southern Britain (2018)
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Neil, S., Evans, J., Montgomery, J., & Scarre, C. (2018). Isotopic evidence for landscape use and the role of causewayed enclosures during the earlier Neolithic in southern Britain. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 84, 185-205. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2018.6

The nature of landscape use and residence patterns during the British earlier Neolithic has often been debated. Here we use strontium and oxygen isotope analysis of tooth enamel, from individuals buried at the Hambledon Hill causewayed enclosure monu... Read More about Isotopic evidence for landscape use and the role of causewayed enclosures during the earlier Neolithic in southern Britain.

A Novel Investigation into Migrant and Local Health-Statuses in the Past: A Case Study from Roman Britain (2018)
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Redfern, R., DeWitte, S., Montgomery, J., & Gowland, R. (2018). A Novel Investigation into Migrant and Local Health-Statuses in the Past: A Case Study from Roman Britain. Bioarchaeology international, 2(1), 20-43. https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2018.1014

Migration continues to be a central theme in archaeology, and bioarchaeology has made significant contributions toward understanding the disease and demographic consequences of migration in different periods and places. These studies have been enhanc... Read More about A Novel Investigation into Migrant and Local Health-Statuses in the Past: A Case Study from Roman Britain.

Multi-isotope evidence for cattle droving at Roman Worcester (2018)
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Gan, Y. M., Towers, J., Bradley⁠, R. A., Pearson, E., Nowell, G., Peterkin, J., & Montgomery⁠, J. (2018). Multi-isotope evidence for cattle droving at Roman Worcester. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 20, 6-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.03.028

Tooth enamel from six cattle mandibles excavated from Roman deposits at The Hive development site, Worcester (mid-2nd to early 4th century AD) was subjected to strontium, oxygen and carbon isotope analyses (87Sr/86Sr, δ18O and δ13C) to investigate th... Read More about Multi-isotope evidence for cattle droving at Roman Worcester.

Aurochs Hunters: The Large Animal Bones from Blick Mead (2018)
Book Chapter
Rogers, B., Gron, K., Montgomery, J., Gröcke, D., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2018). Aurochs Hunters: The Large Animal Bones from Blick Mead. In D. Jacques, T. Phillips, & T. Lyons (Eds.), Blick mead : exploring the 'first place' in the Stonehenge landscape. Archaeological excavations at Blick Mead, Amesbury, Wiltshire 2005–2016 (127-152). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b11044

The site of Blick Mead has attracted an unusual degree of interest. In addition to its intrinsic importance as a Mesolithic site, its location less than two kilometres east of Stonehenge and its temporal overlap with the massive Mesolithic posts in t... Read More about Aurochs Hunters: The Large Animal Bones from Blick Mead.

Detecting Mobility in Early Iron Age Thessaly by Strontium Isotope Analysis (2018)
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Panagiotopoulou, E., Montgomery, J., Nowell, G., Peterkin, J., Doulgeri-Intzesiloglou, A., Arachoviti, P., …Tsiouka, F. (2018). Detecting Mobility in Early Iron Age Thessaly by Strontium Isotope Analysis. European Journal of Archaeology, 21(4), 590-611. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2017.88

This article presents evidence of population movements in Thessaly, Greece, during the Early Iron Age (Protogeometric period, eleventh–ninth centuries BC). The method we employed to detect non-local individuals is strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86S... Read More about Detecting Mobility in Early Iron Age Thessaly by Strontium Isotope Analysis.

Dental disease and dietary isotopes of individuals from St Gertrude Church cemetery, Riga, Latvia (2018)
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Petersone-Gordina, P., Roberts, C., Millard, A., Montgomery, J., & Gerhards, G. (2018). Dental disease and dietary isotopes of individuals from St Gertrude Church cemetery, Riga, Latvia. PLoS ONE, 13(1), Article e0191757. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191757

This research explores oral health indicators and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data to explore diet, and differences in diet, between people buried in the four different contexts of the St Gertrude Church cemetery (15th– 17th centuries AD): the... Read More about Dental disease and dietary isotopes of individuals from St Gertrude Church cemetery, Riga, Latvia.

Death by combat at the dawn of the Bronze Age? Profiling the dagger-accompanied burial from Racton, West Sussex (2017)
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Needham, S., Kenny, J., Cole, G., Montgomery, J., Jay, M., and, M. D., & Marshall, P. (2017). Death by combat at the dawn of the Bronze Age? Profiling the dagger-accompanied burial from Racton, West Sussex

A previously unresearched Early Bronze Age dagger-grave found in 1989 at Racton, West Sussex, is profiled here through a range of studies. The dagger, the only grave accompaniment, is of the ‘transitional’ Ferry Fryston type, this example being of br... Read More about Death by combat at the dawn of the Bronze Age? Profiling the dagger-accompanied burial from Racton, West Sussex.

Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel (2017)
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Andre Stewart, N., Fernanda Gerlach, R., Gowland, R. L., Gron, K., & Montgomery, J. (2017). Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(52), 13649-13654. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714926115

The assignment of biological sex to archaeological human skeletons is a fundamental requirement for the reconstruction of the human past. It is conventionally and routinely performed on adults using metric analysis and morphological traits arising fr... Read More about Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel.

A cold case closed. New light on the life and death of the Lateglacial elk from Poulton-le-Fylde (Lancashire, UK) (2017)
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Pettitt, P., Rowley-Conwy, P., Montgomery, J., & Richards, M. (2017). A cold case closed. New light on the life and death of the Lateglacial elk from Poulton-le-Fylde (Lancashire, UK). https://doi.org/10.7485/qu64_8

Since its excavation in the 1970s the Allerød, period adult male elk from Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire (UK) has been interpreted as a Lateglacial hunting episode, presumably by Federmessergruppen hunter-gatherers, albeit in the absence of typological... Read More about A cold case closed. New light on the life and death of the Lateglacial elk from Poulton-le-Fylde (Lancashire, UK).

An isotopic investigation into the origins and husbandry of Mid-Late Bronze Age cattle from Grimes Graves, Norfolk (2017)
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Towers, J., Bond, J., Evans, J., Mainland, I., & Montgomery, J. (2017). An isotopic investigation into the origins and husbandry of Mid-Late Bronze Age cattle from Grimes Graves, Norfolk. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 15, 59-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.07.007

Bioarchaeological evidence suggests that the site of Grimes Graves, Norfolk, characterised by the remains of several hundred Late Neolithic flint mineshafts, was a permanently settled community with a mixed farming economy during the Mid-Late Bronze... Read More about An isotopic investigation into the origins and husbandry of Mid-Late Bronze Age cattle from Grimes Graves, Norfolk.

Land use and mobility during the Neolithic in Wales explored using isotope analysis of tooth enamel (2017)
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Neil, S., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Cook, G. T., & Scarre, C. (2017). Land use and mobility during the Neolithic in Wales explored using isotope analysis of tooth enamel. American journal of physical anthropology, 164(2), 371-393. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23279

Objectives: The nature of land use and mobility during the transition to agriculture has often been debated. Here, we use isotope analysis of tooth enamel from human populations buried in two different Neolithic burial monuments, Penywyrlod and Ty Is... Read More about Land use and mobility during the Neolithic in Wales explored using isotope analysis of tooth enamel.

Investigation of a Medieval Pilgrim Burial Excavated from the Leprosarium of St Mary Magdalen Winchester, UK (2017)
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Roffey, S., Tucker, K., Filipek-Ogden, K., Montgomery, J., Cameron, J., O’Connell, T., …Taylor, G. M. (2017). Investigation of a Medieval Pilgrim Burial Excavated from the Leprosarium of St Mary Magdalen Winchester, UK. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(1), Article e0005186. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005186

We have examined the remains of a Pilgrim burial from St Mary Magdalen, Winchester. The individual was a young adult male, aged around 18–25 years at the time of death. Radiocarbon dating showed the remains dated to the late 11th–early 12th centuries... Read More about Investigation of a Medieval Pilgrim Burial Excavated from the Leprosarium of St Mary Magdalen Winchester, UK.

Keeping up with the kids: mobility patterns of young individuals from the St. Mary Magdalen Leprosy Hospital (Winchester) (2016)
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Filipek-Ogden, K. L., Roberts, C., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Gowland, R., & Tucker, K. (2016). Keeping up with the kids: mobility patterns of young individuals from the St. Mary Magdalen Leprosy Hospital (Winchester). American journal of physical anthropology, 159(s62), https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22955

Leprosy is one of the few specific infectious diseases that can be studied in bioarchaeology due to its characteristic debilitating and disfiguring skeletal changes. Leprosy has been, and continues to be, one of the most socially stigmatising disease... Read More about Keeping up with the kids: mobility patterns of young individuals from the St. Mary Magdalen Leprosy Hospital (Winchester).

The Great Irish Famine: identifying starvation in the tissues of victims using stable isotope analysis of bone and incremental dentine collagen (2016)
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Beaumont, J., & Montgomery, J. (2016). The Great Irish Famine: identifying starvation in the tissues of victims using stable isotope analysis of bone and incremental dentine collagen. PLoS ONE, 11(8), Article e0160065. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160065

The major components of human diet both past and present may be estimated by measuring the carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios (δ13C and δ15N) of the collagenous proteins in bone and tooth dentine. However, the results from these two tissues differ su... Read More about The Great Irish Famine: identifying starvation in the tissues of victims using stable isotope analysis of bone and incremental dentine collagen.

On the curious date of the Rylstone log-coffin burial (2016)
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Melton, N., Montgomery, J., Roberts, B., Cook, G., & Harris, S. (2016). On the curious date of the Rylstone log-coffin burial. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 82, 383-392. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2016.5

Radiocarbon dates have been obtained from a log-coffin burial excavated in 1864 by Canon William Greenwell from a ditched round barrow at Scale House, near Rylstone, North Yorkshire. The oak tree-trunk coffin had contained an extended body wrapped in... Read More about On the curious date of the Rylstone log-coffin burial.

The identification of peptides by nanoLC-MS/MS from human surface tooth enamel following a simple acid etch extraction (2016)
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Stewart, N. A., Molina, G. F., Issa, J. P. M., Yates, N. A., Sosovicka, M., Vieira, A. R., …Gerlach, R. F. (2016). The identification of peptides by nanoLC-MS/MS from human surface tooth enamel following a simple acid etch extraction. RSC Advances, 6(66), 61673-61679. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ra05120k

Tooth enamel is the hardest, densest and most mineralized tissue in vertebrates. This is due to the high crystallinity of enamel. During enamel formation, proteins responsible for mineralization are degraded by proteases, which results in mature enam... Read More about The identification of peptides by nanoLC-MS/MS from human surface tooth enamel following a simple acid etch extraction.

Bell Beaker people in Britain: migration, mobility and diet (2016)
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Parker Pearson, M., Chamberlain, A., Jay, M., Richards, M., Sheridan, A., Curtis, N., …Wilkin, N. (2016). Bell Beaker people in Britain: migration, mobility and diet. Antiquity, 90(351), 620-637. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.72

The appearance of the distinctive ‘Beaker package’ marks an important horizon in British prehistory, but was it associated with immigrants to Britain or with indigenous converts? Analysis of the skeletal remains of 264 individuals from the British Ch... Read More about Bell Beaker people in Britain: migration, mobility and diet.

Strontium isotope evidence of early Funnel Beaker Culture movement of cattle (2016)
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Gron, K., Montgomery, J., Otto Nielsen, P., Nowell, G., Peterkin, J. L., Sørensen, L., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2016). Strontium isotope evidence of early Funnel Beaker Culture movement of cattle. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 6, 248-251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.02.015

The movement of livestock across and within landscapes is increasingly being recognized as common in northern European prehistoric contexts, and was performed for various purposes. However, almost nothing is known about the movement of livestock in t... Read More about Strontium isotope evidence of early Funnel Beaker Culture movement of cattle.

All Roads Lead to Rome: Exploring Human Migration to the Eternal City through Biochemistry of Skeletons from Two Imperial-Era Cemeteries (1st-3rd c AD) (2016)
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Killgrove, K., & Montgomery, J. (2016). All Roads Lead to Rome: Exploring Human Migration to the Eternal City through Biochemistry of Skeletons from Two Imperial-Era Cemeteries (1st-3rd c AD). PLoS ONE, 11(2), Article e0147585. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147585

Migration within the Roman Empire occurred at multiple scales and was engaged in both voluntarily and involuntarily. Because of the lengthy tradition of classical studies, bioarchaeological analyses must be fully contextualized within the bounds of h... Read More about All Roads Lead to Rome: Exploring Human Migration to the Eternal City through Biochemistry of Skeletons from Two Imperial-Era Cemeteries (1st-3rd c AD).

Assembling places and persons: a tenth-century Viking boat burial from Swordle Bay on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, western Scotland (2016)
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Harris, O. J., Cobb, H., Batey, C. E., Montgomery, J., Beaumont, J., Gray, H., …Richardson, P. (2017). Assembling places and persons: a tenth-century Viking boat burial from Swordle Bay on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, western Scotland. Antiquity, 91(355), 191-206. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.222

A rare, intact Viking boat burial in western Scotland contained a rich assemblage of grave goods, providing clues to the identity and origins of both the interred individual and the people who gathered to create the site. The burial evokes the mundan... Read More about Assembling places and persons: a tenth-century Viking boat burial from Swordle Bay on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, western Scotland.

Isotopic evidence for residential mobility of farming communities during the transition to agriculture in Britain (2016)
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Neil, S., Evans, J., Montgomery, J., & Scarre, C. (2016). Isotopic evidence for residential mobility of farming communities during the transition to agriculture in Britain. Royal Society Open Science, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150522

Development of agriculture is often assumed to be accompanied by a decline in residential mobility, and sedentism is frequently proposed to provide the basis for economic intensification, population growth and increasing social complexity. In Britain... Read More about Isotopic evidence for residential mobility of farming communities during the transition to agriculture in Britain.

Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons (2016)
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Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M., Hunter-Mann, K., Montgomery, J., Müldner, G., …Bradley, D. G. (2016). Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons. Nature Communications, 7, Article 10326. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10326

The purported migrations that have formed the peoples of Britain have been the focus of generations of scholarly controversy. However, this has not benefited from direct analyses of ancient genomes. Here we report nine ancient genomes (~1 ×) of indiv... Read More about Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons.

Calving seasonality at Pool, Orkney during the first millennium AD: an investigation using intra-tooth isotope ratio analysis of cattle molar enamel (2016)
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Towers, J., Mainland, I., Montgomery, J., & Bond, J. (2016). Calving seasonality at Pool, Orkney during the first millennium AD: an investigation using intra-tooth isotope ratio analysis of cattle molar enamel. Environmental Archaeology, 22(1), 40-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2015.1116214

The identification of dairying is essential if we are to understand economies of the past, particularly in northwest Europe, where a high degree of lactose tolerance suggests that fresh milk has long been a significant food product. This paper explor... Read More about Calving seasonality at Pool, Orkney during the first millennium AD: an investigation using intra-tooth isotope ratio analysis of cattle molar enamel.

Identifying migrants in Roman London using lead and strontium stable isotopes (2016)
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Shaw, H., Montgomery, J., Redfern, R., Gowland, R., & Evans, J. (2016). Identifying migrants in Roman London using lead and strontium stable isotopes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 66, 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.12.001

The ancient settlement of Londinium (London) has long been characterized as a major commercial and bureaucratic centre of the Roman province of Britain (Britannia). Primary source information indicates that people were drawn to the city from around t... Read More about Identifying migrants in Roman London using lead and strontium stable isotopes.

Toiling with teeth: An integrated dental analysis of sheep and cattle dentition in Iron Age and Viking–Late Norse Orkney. (2015)
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Mainland, I., Towers, J., Ewens, V., Davis, G., Montgomery, J., Batey, C., …Downes, J. (2016). Toiling with teeth: An integrated dental analysis of sheep and cattle dentition in Iron Age and Viking–Late Norse Orkney. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 6, 837-855. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.12.002

A key goal for archaeozoology is to define and characterise pastoral farming strategies. In the last decade, some of the most innovative approaches for addressing these questions have centred on the mammalian dentition, including inter alia sequentia... Read More about Toiling with teeth: An integrated dental analysis of sheep and cattle dentition in Iron Age and Viking–Late Norse Orkney..

Oral Histories: a simple method of assigning chronological age to isotopic values from human dentine collagen (2015)
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Beaumont, J., & Montgomery, J. (2015). Oral Histories: a simple method of assigning chronological age to isotopic values from human dentine collagen. Annals of Human Biology, 42(4), 407-414. https://doi.org/10.3109/03014460.2015.1045027

Background: Stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) in bone and dentine collagen have been used for over 30 years to estimate palaeodiet, subsistence strategy, breastfeeding duration and migration within burial populations. Recent... Read More about Oral Histories: a simple method of assigning chronological age to isotopic values from human dentine collagen.

Cattle Management for Dairying in Scandinavia’s earliest Neolithic (2015)
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Gron, K., Montgomery, J., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2015). Cattle Management for Dairying in Scandinavia’s earliest Neolithic. PLoS ONE, 10(7), Article e0131267. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131267

New evidence for cattle husbandry practices during the earliest period of the southern Scandinavian Neolithic indicates multiple birth seasons and dairying from its start. Sequential sampling of tooth enamel carbonate carbon and oxygen isotope ratio... Read More about Cattle Management for Dairying in Scandinavia’s earliest Neolithic.

Difference in Death? A Lost Neolithic Inhumation Cemetery with Britain’s Earliest Case of Rickets, at Balevullin, Western Scotland (2015)
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Armit, I., Shapland, F., Montgomery, J., & Beaumont, J. (2015). Difference in Death? A Lost Neolithic Inhumation Cemetery with Britain’s Earliest Case of Rickets, at Balevullin, Western Scotland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 81, 199-214. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2015.7

Recent radiocarbon dating of a skeleton from Balevullin, Tiree, excavated in the early twentieth century, demonstrates that it dates to the Neolithic period, rather than the Iron Age as originally expected. Osteological examination suggests that the... Read More about Difference in Death? A Lost Neolithic Inhumation Cemetery with Britain’s Earliest Case of Rickets, at Balevullin, Western Scotland.

Infant mortality and isotopic complexity: new approaches to stress, maternal health, and weaning (2015)
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Beaumont, J., Montgomery, J., Buckberry, J., & Jay, M. (2015). Infant mortality and isotopic complexity: new approaches to stress, maternal health, and weaning. American journal of physical anthropology, 157(3), 441-457. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22736

Objectives: Studies of the carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios (δ13C and δ15N) of modern tissues with a fast turnover, such as hair and fingernails, have established the relationship between these values in mothers and their infants during brea... Read More about Infant mortality and isotopic complexity: new approaches to stress, maternal health, and weaning.

Were the Vikings in Carlisle? (2014)
Book Chapter
McCarthy, M., Montgomery, J., Lerwick, C., & Buckberry, J. (2014). Were the Vikings in Carlisle?. In S. Harding, D. Griffiths, & E. Royles (Eds.), In Search of the Vikings: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North-West England (135-145). CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group, London

An investigation of cattle birth seasonality using δ13C and δ18O profiles within first molar enamel (2014)
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Towers, J., Gledhill, A., Bond, J., & Montgomery, J. (2014). An investigation of cattle birth seasonality using δ13C and δ18O profiles within first molar enamel. Archaeometry, 56(S1), 208-236. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12055

Cattle (Bos taurus) are biologically able to breed year-round, potentially giving farmers the freedom to choose a calving strategy to best meet their economic goals. Thus, an accurate method to determine cattle birth seasonality from archaeological r... Read More about An investigation of cattle birth seasonality using δ13C and δ18O profiles within first molar enamel.

Childhood lead exposure in the British Isles during the industrial revolution (2014)
Book Chapter
Millard, A., Montgomery, J., Trickett, M., Beaumont, J., Evans, J., & Chenery, S. (2014). Childhood lead exposure in the British Isles during the industrial revolution. In M. Zuckerman (Ed.), Modern environments and human health : revisiting the second epidemiological transition (279-300). Wiley

Man-made toxin exposure is one of the defining characteristics of the second epidemiological transition. Our analysis of previous data shows that lead levels in tooth enamel above 0.87 ppm are characteristic of exposure to anthropogenic lead. In Brit... Read More about Childhood lead exposure in the British Isles during the industrial revolution.

Finding Vikings with Isotope Analysis: The View from Wet and Windy Islands (2014)
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Montgomery, J., Grimes, V., Buckberry, J., Evans, J., Richards, M., & Barrett, J. (2014). Finding Vikings with Isotope Analysis: The View from Wet and Windy Islands. Journal of the North Atlantic, Special Volume 7, 54-70

Identifying people of exotic origins with isotopes depends upon finding isotopic attributes that are inconsistent with the indigenous population. This task is seldom straightforward and may vary with physical geography, through time, and with cultura... Read More about Finding Vikings with Isotope Analysis: The View from Wet and Windy Islands.

Isotope analysis of incremental human dentine: towards higher temporal resolution (2014)
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Beaumont, J., Gledhill, A., & Montgomery, J. (2014). Isotope analysis of incremental human dentine: towards higher temporal resolution. Bulletin of the International association for paleodontology, 8(2), 212-223

Here we present a novel method which allows the measurement of the stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) from much smaller samples of dentine than previously possible without affecting the quality parameters. The reconstruction o... Read More about Isotope analysis of incremental human dentine: towards higher temporal resolution.

Diet and origins: the isotope evidence (2013)
Book Chapter
Montgomery, J., & Gledhill, A. (2013). Diet and origins: the isotope evidence. In N. D. Melton, J. Montgomery, & C. J. Knüsel (Eds.), Gristhorpe Man: a Life and Death in the Bronze Age (129-141). Oxbow

Strategic and sporadic marine consumption at the onset of the Neolithic: increasing temporal resolution in the isotope evidence (2013)
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Montgomery, J., Beaumont, J., Jay, A., Keefe, K., Gledhill, A., Cook, G., …Melton, N. (2013). Strategic and sporadic marine consumption at the onset of the Neolithic: increasing temporal resolution in the isotope evidence. Antiquity, 87(338), 1060-1072. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00049863

Stable isotope analysis has provided crucial new insights into dietary change at the Neolithic transition in north-west Europe, indicating an unexpectedly sudden and radical shift from marine to terrestrial resources in coastal and island locations.... Read More about Strategic and sporadic marine consumption at the onset of the Neolithic: increasing temporal resolution in the isotope evidence.

British Iron Age chariot burials of the Arras culture: a multi-isotope approach to investigating mobility levels and subsistence practices (2013)
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Jay, M., Montgomery, J., Nehlich, O., Towers, J., & Evans, J. (2013). British Iron Age chariot burials of the Arras culture: a multi-isotope approach to investigating mobility levels and subsistence practices. World Archaeology, 45(3), 473-491. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2013.820647

Iron Age chariot burials in the UK are rare and restricted in their distribution. Historically it has been suggested that their Arras culture affinities with Continental Europe, particularly with the Paris basin in France, may be indicative of migrat... Read More about British Iron Age chariot burials of the Arras culture: a multi-isotope approach to investigating mobility levels and subsistence practices.

‘To the land or to the sea' : diet and mobility in early medieval Frisia (2013)
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McManus, E., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Lamb, A., Brettell, R., & Jelsma, J. (2013). ‘To the land or to the sea' : diet and mobility in early medieval Frisia. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 8(2), 255-277. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2013.787565

This study investigated palaeodiet and population mobility in early medieval Frisia through the stable isotope analysis of individuals buried in the fifth–eighth century AD cemetery of Oosterbeintum, a terp site on the northern coast of the Netherlan... Read More about ‘To the land or to the sea' : diet and mobility in early medieval Frisia.

Childhood diet: a closer examination of the evidence from dental tissues using stable isotope analysis of incremental human dentine (2013)
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Beaumont, J., Gledhill, A., Lee-Thorp, J., & Montgomery, J. (2013). Childhood diet: a closer examination of the evidence from dental tissues using stable isotope analysis of incremental human dentine. Archaeometry, 55(2), 277-295. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4754.2012.00682.x

Incremental dentine analysis utilizes tissue that does not remodel and that permits comparison, at the same age, of those who survived infancy with those who did not at high temporal resolution. Here, we present a pilot study of teeth from a 19th-cen... Read More about Childhood diet: a closer examination of the evidence from dental tissues using stable isotope analysis of incremental human dentine.

Mobility, Mortality, and the Middle Ages: Identification of Migrant Individuals in a 14th Century Black Death Cemetery Population (2013)
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Kendall, E., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Stantis, C., & Mueller, V. (2013). Mobility, Mortality, and the Middle Ages: Identification of Migrant Individuals in a 14th Century Black Death Cemetery Population. American journal of physical anthropology, 150(2), 210-222. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22194

Mobility and migration patterns of groups and individuals have long been a topic of interest to archaeologists, used for broad explanatory models of cultural change as well as illustrations of historical particularism. The 14th century AD was a tumul... Read More about Mobility, Mortality, and the Middle Ages: Identification of Migrant Individuals in a 14th Century Black Death Cemetery Population.

Brewing and stewing: the effect of culturally mediated behaviour on the oxygen isotope composition of ingested fluids and the implications for human provenance studies (2012)
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Brettell, R., Montgomery, J., & Evans, J. (2012). Brewing and stewing: the effect of culturally mediated behaviour on the oxygen isotope composition of ingested fluids and the implications for human provenance studies. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 27(5), 778-785. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2ja10335d

The emergence of the LBK: Migration, memory and meaning at the transition to agriculture (2012)
Book Chapter
Zvelebil, M., Lillie, M., Montgomery, J., Lukes, A., Pettitt, P., & Richards, M. (2012). The emergence of the LBK: Migration, memory and meaning at the transition to agriculture. In J. Burger, E. Kaiser, & W. Schier (Eds.), Population dynamics in pre- and early history : new approaches by using stable isotopes and genetics (133-148). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110266306.133

This paper represents one element of a collaborative research project, funded by the AHRC, which focussed on a multidisciplinary study of the Earlier Neolithic cemetery of Vedrovice, Moravia, Czech Republic. One of the key aims of this project was th... Read More about The emergence of the LBK: Migration, memory and meaning at the transition to agriculture.

A calf for all seasons? The potential of stable isotope analysis to investigate prehistoric husbandry practices (2011)
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Towers, J., Jay, M., Mainland, I., Nehlich, O., & Montgomery, J. (2011). A calf for all seasons? The potential of stable isotope analysis to investigate prehistoric husbandry practices. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38(8), 1858-1868. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.03.030

The Early Bronze Age barrows at Irthlingborough and Gayhurst in central England are notable for the large number of cattle (Bos taurus) remains associated with their human Beaker burials. Previous work using strontium isotope analysis has indicated t... Read More about A calf for all seasons? The potential of stable isotope analysis to investigate prehistoric husbandry practices.

New light on the personal identification of a skeleton of a member of Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the Arctic, 1845 (2011)
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Mays, S., Ogden, A., Montgomery, J., Vincent, S., Battersby, W., & Taylor, G. (2011). New light on the personal identification of a skeleton of a member of Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the Arctic, 1845. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38(7), 1571-1582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.02.022

In 1845, an expedition, commanded by Sir John Franklin, set out to try and discover the north-west passage. All 129 men on this ill-fated voyage perished. Over the years, skeletal remains associated with the final throes of the expedition have been l... Read More about New light on the personal identification of a skeleton of a member of Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the Arctic, 1845.

Identifying the origins of decapitated male skeletons from 3 Driffield Terrace, York, through isotope analysis: reflections of the cosmopolitan nature of Roman York in the time of Caracalla (2011)
Book Chapter
Montgomery, J., Knüsel, C., & Tucker, K. (2011). Identifying the origins of decapitated male skeletons from 3 Driffield Terrace, York, through isotope analysis: reflections of the cosmopolitan nature of Roman York in the time of Caracalla. In M. Bonogofsky (Ed.), The bioarchaeology of the human head : decapitation, decoration and deformation (141-178). University Press of Florida

Gristhorpe Man: a Raman spectroscopic study of 'mistletoe berries' in a Bronze Age log coffin burial (2010)
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Edwards, H., Montgomery, J., Melton, N., Hargreaves, M., Wilson, A., & Carter, E. (2010). Gristhorpe Man: a Raman spectroscopic study of 'mistletoe berries' in a Bronze Age log coffin burial. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 41(11), 1533-1536. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrs.2593

In 1834 in a tumulus at Gristhorpe, North Yorkshire, UK, an intact coffin fashioned from the hollowed-out trunk of an oak tree was found to contain a well-preserved skeleton stained black from the oak tannins, wrapped in an animal skin and buried wit... Read More about Gristhorpe Man: a Raman spectroscopic study of 'mistletoe berries' in a Bronze Age log coffin burial.

Gristhorpe Man: an Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined (2010)
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Melton, N., Montgomery, J., Knüsel, C. J., Batt, C., Needham, S., Pearson, M. P., …Wilson, A. (2010). Gristhorpe Man: an Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined. Antiquity, 84(325), 796-815. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00100237

A log-coffin excavated in the early nineteenth century proved to be well enough preserved in the early twenty-first century for the full armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a new... Read More about Gristhorpe Man: an Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined.

Passports from the past: Investigating human dispersals using strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel (2010)
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Montgomery, J. (2010). Passports from the past: Investigating human dispersals using strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel. Annals of Human Biology, 37(3), 325-346. https://doi.org/10.3109/03014461003649297

Strontium isotopes are a powerful tool which provide information about provenance directly from the tissues of humans rather than the grave context and burial goods. Geographical variation in strontium isotopes is primarily controlled by the underlyi... Read More about Passports from the past: Investigating human dispersals using strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel.

Evidence for long-term averaging of strontium in bovine enamel using TIMS and LA-MC-ICP-MS strontium isotope intra-molar profiles (2010)
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Montgomery, J., Evans, J., & Horstwood, M. (2010). Evidence for long-term averaging of strontium in bovine enamel using TIMS and LA-MC-ICP-MS strontium isotope intra-molar profiles. Environmental Archaeology, 15(1), 32-42. https://doi.org/10.1179/146141010x12640787648694

High spatial resolution micro-sampling of tooth enamel offers the possibility of high temporal resolution isotope data to reconstruct climate, environment, diet and mobility. Questions remain about the duration and pattern of the maturation phase of... Read More about Evidence for long-term averaging of strontium in bovine enamel using TIMS and LA-MC-ICP-MS strontium isotope intra-molar profiles.

An investigation of the origins of cattle and aurochs deposited in the Early Bronze Age barrows at Gayhurst and Irthlingborough (2010)
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Towers, J., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Jay, M., & Pearson, M. (2010). An investigation of the origins of cattle and aurochs deposited in the Early Bronze Age barrows at Gayhurst and Irthlingborough. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37(3), 508-515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.10.012

The Early Bronze Age round barrows at Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire and Gayhurst, Buckinghamshire contained remarkably large quantities of cattle (Bos taurus) remains. At Irthlingborough, at least 185 skulls with smaller numbers of mandibles, sho... Read More about An investigation of the origins of cattle and aurochs deposited in the Early Bronze Age barrows at Gayhurst and Irthlingborough.

The Identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria: An Osteobiographical Approach (2010)
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Knusel, C., Batt, C., Cook, G., Montgomery, J., Muldner, G., Ogden, A., …Wilson, A. (2010). The Identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria: An Osteobiographical Approach. Medieval Archaeology, 54(1), 271-311. https://doi.org/10.1179/174581710x12790370815931

Using an Osteobiographical approach, this contribution considers the identity of the woman found alongside the St Bees Man, one of the best-preserved archaeological bodies ever discovered. Osteological, isotopic and radiocarbon analyses, combined wit... Read More about The Identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria: An Osteobiographical Approach.

Spatial variations in biosphere 87Sr/86Sr in Britain (2010)
Journal Article
Evans, J., Montgomery, J., Wildman, G., & Boulton, N. (2010). Spatial variations in biosphere 87Sr/86Sr in Britain. Journal of the Geological Society, 167(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-76492009-090

Strontium isotopes are a powerful tool for investigating the geographical origins of people and animals but assignment of provenance requires reference maps and databases. This paper presents a map of strontium isotope variations across Britain for u... Read More about Spatial variations in biosphere 87Sr/86Sr in Britain.

Stable isotope analysis of bone. (2009)
Book Chapter
Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Chenery, C., & Müldner, G. (2009). Stable isotope analysis of bone. In M. Carver, C. Hills, & J. Scheschkewitz (Eds.), Wasperton: A Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon Community in Central England (48-49). Boydell & Brewer

Isotope analysis of bone collagen and tooth enamel. (2009)
Book Chapter
Montgomery, J., Muldner, G., Cook, G., Gledhill, A., & Ellam, R. (2009). Isotope analysis of bone collagen and tooth enamel. In C. Lowe (Ed.), 'Clothing for the Soul Divine': Burials at the Tomb of St Ninian. Excavations at Whithorn Priory, 1957-67 (63-80). Historic Scotland

Isotopes and individuals: diet and mobility among the medieval Bishops of Whithorn (2009)
Journal Article
Muldner, G., Montgomery, J., Cook, G., Ellam, R., Gledhill, A., & Lowe, C. (2009). Isotopes and individuals: diet and mobility among the medieval Bishops of Whithorn. Antiquity, 83(322), 1119-1133. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00099403

Stable isotopes get personal in this analysis of burials at a medieval cathedral. Compared with the local meat-eating rank and file, those people identified as bishops consumed significantly more fish and were incomers from the east. These results, w... Read More about Isotopes and individuals: diet and mobility among the medieval Bishops of Whithorn.

Mobility or migration: a case study from the Neolithic settlement of Nieder-Mörlen (Hessen, Germany) (2009)
Journal Article
Nehlich, O., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Schade-Lindig, S., Pichler, S., Richards, M., & Alt, K. (2009). Mobility or migration: a case study from the Neolithic settlement of Nieder-Mörlen (Hessen, Germany). Journal of Archaeological Science, 36(8), 1791-1799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.04.008

A combination of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of collagen and radiogenic strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel was used to investigate diet and mobility at the early Neolithic settlement of Nieder-Mörlen in Germany. The carbon and... Read More about Mobility or migration: a case study from the Neolithic settlement of Nieder-Mörlen (Hessen, Germany).

The potential of carbonized grain to preserve biogenic (SR)-S-87/(SR)-S-86 signatures within the burial environment (2009)
Journal Article
Heier, A., Evans, J., & Montgomery, J. (2009). The potential of carbonized grain to preserve biogenic (SR)-S-87/(SR)-S-86 signatures within the burial environment. Archaeometry, 51(2), 277-291. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4754.2008.00409.x

Carbonized grains survive for millennia in many archaeological contexts. Their stable structure raises the possibility that they preserve biogenic strontium isotope signatures. This hypothesis was investigated using short-term, laboratory experiments... Read More about The potential of carbonized grain to preserve biogenic (SR)-S-87/(SR)-S-86 signatures within the burial environment.

Determination of Sr isotopes in calcium phosphates using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and their application to archaeological tooth enamel (2008)
Journal Article
Horstwood, M., Evans, J., & Montgomery, J. (2008). Determination of Sr isotopes in calcium phosphates using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and their application to archaeological tooth enamel. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72(23), 5659-5674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2008.08.016

Isotopic analysis of humans and animals from Vedrovice (2008)
Journal Article
Richards, M., Montgomery, J., Nehlich, O., & Grimes, V. (2008). Isotopic analysis of humans and animals from Vedrovice. Anthropologie (Brno. Print), XLVI(2-3), 185-194

We report here the results of our isotopic analysis of humans from the site of Vedrovice. We undertook carbon and nitrogen analysis to reconstruct human diets and strontium and sulphur isotope analysis to reconstruct human mobility. Our carbon and ni... Read More about Isotopic analysis of humans and animals from Vedrovice.

The age of Stonehenge (2007)
Journal Article
Parker-Pearson., M., Cleal, R., Marshall, P., Needham, S., Pollard, J., Richards, C., …Richards, M. (2007). The age of Stonehenge. Antiquity, 81(313), 617-639. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00095624

Stonehenge is the icon of British prehistory, and continues to inspire ingenious investigations and interpretations. A current campaign of research, being waged by probably the strongest archaeological team ever assembled, is focused not just on the... Read More about The age of Stonehenge.

Resolving archaeological populations with Sr-isotope mixing models (2007)
Journal Article
Montgomery, J., Evans, J., & Cooper, R. (2007). Resolving archaeological populations with Sr-isotope mixing models. Applied Geochemistry, 22(7), 1502-1514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.02.009

Strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel is a useful provenancing technique to investigate the childhood origins and residential mobility of ancient people. However, where different geographical target regions have similar biosphere 87Sr/86Sr it is... Read More about Resolving archaeological populations with Sr-isotope mixing models.

Foragers, farmers or foreigners? An assessment of dietary strontium isotope variation in Middle Neolithic and Early Bronze Age East Yorkshire (2007)
Book Chapter
Montgomery, J., Cooper, R., & Evans, J. (2007). Foragers, farmers or foreigners? An assessment of dietary strontium isotope variation in Middle Neolithic and Early Bronze Age East Yorkshire. In M. Larsson, & M. Parker Pearson (Eds.), From Stonehenge to the Baltic : living with cultural diversity in the third millennium BC (65-75). Archaeopress

Sr-87/Sr-86 isotope composition of bottled British mineral waters for environmental and forensic purposes (2006)
Journal Article
Montgomery, J., Evans, J., & Wildman, G. (2006). Sr-87/Sr-86 isotope composition of bottled British mineral waters for environmental and forensic purposes. Applied Geochemistry, 21(10), 1626-1634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2006.07.002

Mineral waters in Britain show a wide range of 87Sr/86Sr isotope compositions ranging between 87Sr/86Sr = 0.7059 from Carboniferous volcanic rock sources in Perthshire, to 87Sr/86Sr = 0.7207 in the Dalradian aquifer of Aberdeenshire. The 87Sr/86Sr co... Read More about Sr-87/Sr-86 isotope composition of bottled British mineral waters for environmental and forensic purposes.

Immigrants on the Isle of Lewis - combining traditional funerary and modern isotope evidence to investigate social differentiation, migration and dietary change in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland (2006)
Book Chapter
Montgomery, J., & Evans, J. (2006). Immigrants on the Isle of Lewis - combining traditional funerary and modern isotope evidence to investigate social differentiation, migration and dietary change in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. In R. Gowland, & C. Knusel (Eds.), The social archaeology of funerary remains (122-142). Oxbow Books

Continuity or colonization in Anglo-Saxon England? Isotope evidence for mobility, subsistence practice, and status at West Heslerton (2005)
Journal Article
Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Powlesland, D., & Roberts, C. (2005). Continuity or colonization in Anglo-Saxon England? Isotope evidence for mobility, subsistence practice, and status at West Heslerton. American journal of physical anthropology, 126(2), 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20111

The adventus Saxonum is a crucial event in English protohistory. Scholars from a range of disciplines dispute the scale and demographic profile of the purported colonizing population. The 5th-7th century burial ground at West Heslerton, North Yorkshi... Read More about Continuity or colonization in Anglo-Saxon England? Isotope evidence for mobility, subsistence practice, and status at West Heslerton.

Sr isotope evidence for population movement within the Hebridean Norse community of NW Scotland (2003)
Journal Article
Montgomery, J., Evans, J., & Neighbour, T. (2003). Sr isotope evidence for population movement within the Hebridean Norse community of NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, 160(5), 649-653. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-764903-037

The excavation at Cnip, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, of the largest, and only known family cemetery from the early Norse period in the Hebrides, provided a unique opportunity to use Sr isotope analysis to examine the origins of people who may have been N... Read More about Sr isotope evidence for population movement within the Hebridean Norse community of NW Scotland.

Reconstructing the lifetime movements of ancient people: a Neolithic case study from southern England (2000)
Journal Article
Montgomery, J., Budd, P., & Evans, J. (2000). Reconstructing the lifetime movements of ancient people: a Neolithic case study from southern England. European Journal of Archaeology, 3(3), 370-385. https://doi.org/10.1177/146195710000300304

A new procedure is described in which combined lead and strontium isotope analysis of archaeological human dental tissues can be used to comment on the lifetime movements of individuals. A case study is presented of four Neolithic burials – an adult... Read More about Reconstructing the lifetime movements of ancient people: a Neolithic case study from southern England.

Human tooth enamel as a record of the comparative lead exposure of prehistoric and modern people (2000)
Journal Article
Budd, P., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., & Barreiro, B. (2000). Human tooth enamel as a record of the comparative lead exposure of prehistoric and modern people. Science of the Total Environment, 263(1-3), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0048-9697%2800%2900604-5

There is a considerable body of evidence to support the contention that the atmospheric Pb burden is now considerably greater than it was in the remote past. However, as there are a diversity of potential environmental pathways leading to Pb ingestio... Read More about Human tooth enamel as a record of the comparative lead exposure of prehistoric and modern people.

Differential diagenesis of strontium in archaeological human dental tissues (2000)
Journal Article
Budd, P., Montgomery, J., Barreiro, B., & Thomas, R. (2000). Differential diagenesis of strontium in archaeological human dental tissues. Applied Geochemistry, 15(5), 687-694. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0883-2927%2899%2900069-4

The investigation of prehistoric human migration from the measurement of Sr-isotope ratios within preserved tissue is critically dependent on the preservation of biogenic Sr. A number of recent studies have involved isotope ratio measurements on samp... Read More about Differential diagenesis of strontium in archaeological human dental tissues.

The distribution of lead within ancient and modern human teeth: Implications for long-term and historical exposure monitoring (1998)
Journal Article
Budd, P., Montgomery, J., Cox, A., Krause, P., Barreiro, B., & Thomas, R. (1998). The distribution of lead within ancient and modern human teeth: Implications for long-term and historical exposure monitoring. Science of the Total Environment, 220(2-3), 121-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0048-9697%2898%2900244-7

The preservation of lead within human tissue makes it possible to monitor long-term exposure to the element and to model changing sources of lead pollution throughout the lifetime of an individual. Dental tissues have recently been shown to be partic... Read More about The distribution of lead within ancient and modern human teeth: Implications for long-term and historical exposure monitoring.