Professor Janet Montgomery's Outputs (5)

Toiling with teeth: An integrated dental analysis of sheep and cattle dentition in Iron Age and Viking–Late Norse Orkney. (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.