An assessment of solubility profiling as a decontamination procedure for the 87Sr/86Sr analysis of archaeological human skeletal tissue

Trickett, Mark; Budd, Paul; Montgomery, Janet; Evans, Jane

doi:10.1016/s0883-2927(02)00181-6

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“…26 In teeth excavated from buried sediments, however, dentine usually contains more Sr than does enamel and this increase is normally coupled with 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios intermediate between the enamel value and that of the mobile strontium in the burial soil. 26,66,67 In most of our samples, dentine shows an elevated Sr concentration and a decrease in isotope ratio suggesting this tissue underwent secondary modifications during burial and that the mobile soil strontium was less radiogenic than that preserved in the enamel. Exceptions to this occurrence are the dentine samples of the two teeth from G. di Pozzo, which retain low Sr contents.…”

Section: Sr Isotope Resultsmentioning

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Faunal migration in late‐glacial central Italy: implications for human resource exploitation

Pellegrini

Donahue

Chenery³

et al. 2008

Rapid Comm Mass Spectrometry

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The hunter-gatherer transhumance model presents foragers as specialised hunters of migratory ungulates, which moved seasonally between coastal lowlands and interior uplands. We studied six animal teeth of horse (Equus hydruntinus) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) from four different archaeological sites: the Grotta di Vado all'Arancio, Grotta di Settecannelle, Grotta Polesini and Grotta di Pozzo, in central Italy to test whether the migratory patterns and seasonal variations recorded in their teeth were consistent with expectations of the transhumance model for this region during the late Upper Palaeolithic. Sequential sub-samples of enamel were analysed from each tooth for oxygen, carbon and strontium isotope ratios to reconstruct mobility and yearly seasonal variations. The results show little evidence that these animals were moving over different geological terrains throughout the year, although small variations in Sr isotope ratios and concentrations were detected that corresponded to probable seasonal variations as shown by variability in oxygen isotope sequences. The results do, however, demonstrate that Cervus elaphus and Equus hydruntinus had different ranging behaviours, with the former moving over wider areas than the latter. This methodology produces results appropriate to assess animal migratory behaviour and, in turn, to test the consistency of proposed models of hunter-gatherer subsistence and mobility strategies. Copyright # 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Eurasian hunter-gatherer populations experienced rapid and extreme environmental changes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the early Holocene (ca. 18 000 to 8000 BP). e.g. 1,2 During this period profound socio-economic changes and technological developments took place that culminated with the transition to agriculture. Various models have been applied to explore the relationship between the environment and hunter-gatherer behaviour during the late-glacial in Mediterranean Europe. The hunter-gatherer transhumance model, a variation of the seasonal mobility model originally developed by Higgs, 3,4 presents foragers as specialised hunters of migratory ungulates that moved seasonally between coastal lowlands and interior uplands. In Italy, Barker hypothesised that hunter-gatherers of the late Pleistocene followed seasonally migratory herd species including Cervus elaphus and Equus hydruntinus between the Apennine uplands and the coastal plains. 5,6 These two locations offer seasonally distinct opportunities for grazing species: in winter the mountains are inhospitable and cold while the coastal plains remain grass-covered. In summer, instead, the lowlands are dry with little vegetation and the mountains remain vegetated. These distinctions would have been intensified in the late Pleistocene, and Barker argued that the seasonal climatic variations of this Mediterranean landscape would have suited wild species of grazing herbivores that could migrate between these two regions. 6 Although the hunter-gatherer transhumance model is attractive for various reasons...

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Faunal migration in late‐glacial central Italy: implications for human resource exploitation

Pellegrini

Donahue

Chenery³

et al. 2008

Rapid Comm Mass Spectrometry

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“…Sr/ Sr site, we focus our analyses on the tooth enamel, which robustly resists isotopic contamination (e.g., Chiaradia, Gallay, and Todt 2003;Hoppe, Koch, and Furutani 2003;Horn, Hölzl, and Storzer 1994;Koch, Tuross, and Fogel 1997;Trickett et al 2003;Bentley 2006). The Khok Phanom Di sample includes a tooth fragment each from 30 adult females, 23 adult males, and 19 children.…”

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Shifting Gender Relations at Khok Phanom Di, Thailand

Bentley¹,

Tayles²,

Higham³

et al. 2007

Current Anthropology

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“…In a large number of biochemical and isotope studies, enamel is considered to be stable and resistant to structural and chemical change over geological (Bocherens et al 1994, Glimcher et al 1990, Horn et al 1994, Kolodny et al 1996, Michel et al 1995, Michel et al 1996, Rink and Schwarcz 1995, Wang and Cerling 1994 as well as archaeological time scales , Elias et al 1982, Ericson 1993, Koch et al 1997, Lee-Thorp and van der Merwe 1991, NielsenMarsh and Hedges 2000, Price et al 2002, Price et al 1994a, Robinson et al 1986, Trickett et al 2003, Vernois et al 1987. Enamel and dentine contain the same carbonate hydroxyapatite mineral phase but their structure, formation process, crystal size and organic content are very different.…”

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Passports from the past: Investigating human dispersals using strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel

Montgomery

2010

Annals of Human Biology

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractStrontium 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 underlying geology but there are many other factors that need to be considered before migratory individuals can be identified. Consequently, despite many studies which have shown that the method works well, it is clear that much remains to be clarified and it will not work for every question or in every place. It rests on the assumption that people were sourcing their food locally and that there is a measurable strontium isotope difference between the place the person migrated from and the place they migrated to. As migrants may deliberately seek out familiar soil types and terrains in their new homeland, some questions surrounding major migration events may prove intractable for this technique. Other factors that can create heterogeneity or homogeneity leading to false positives or false negatives, such as human choices or coastal subsistence, are explored and the metabolism of strontium into human tooth enamel is discussed.Several models of land use choices by humans are presented to highlight the subtleties inherent in the isotope data and these are used to interpret archaeological human isotope ratios from three studies.

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An assessment of solubility profiling as a decontamination procedure for the 87Sr/86Sr analysis of archaeological human skeletal tissue

Cited by 118 publications

References 20 publications

Faunal migration in late‐glacial central Italy: implications for human resource exploitation

Faunal migration in late‐glacial central Italy: implications for human resource exploitation

Shifting Gender Relations at Khok Phanom Di, Thailand

Passports from the past: Investigating human dispersals using strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel

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