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6 - Isotope Analysis for Diet Studies

from Part II - Biomolecular Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2019

By
Michael P. Richards
Edited by
Michael P. Richards  and
Kate Britton
Michael P. Richards
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Kate Britton
Affiliation:
University of Aberdeen
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Summary

Bone collagen carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis is a powerful tool for providing direct measures of past human diets (Lee-Thorp 2008; Macarewicz and Sealy 2015). Since it was first applied to archaeological bone samples in the late 1970s and early 1980s it has grown into a well-established and now widely applied method (Britton 2017).

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Archaeological Science
An Introduction
 , pp. 125 - 144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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