Continuity or colonization in Anglo‐Saxon England? Isotope evidence for mobility, subsistence practice, and status at West Heslerton

Montgomery, Janet; Evans, Jane; Powlesland, Dominic; Roberts, Charlotte A.

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“…This phenomenon is attributed to high levels of exposure occurring with lead-rich anthropogenic sources with a limited isotopic range, and low levels of exposure deriving from isotopically-diverse natural sources. This inverse correlation of isotopic ratio with concentration has therefore been termed "cultural focussing" (Montgomery et al 2005).On the basis of a visual inspection of a similar figure, Montgomery et al (2010:212) suggested that lead concentrations in excess of about 0.5 ppm should be regarded as having an anthropogenic component as this is the point at which cultural focussing becomes apparent. Here we extend the analysis with a more formal investigation to define a suitable cut-off point above which we regard the lead content of human tooth enamel to have an undoubted technological contribution.…”

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Childhood Lead Exposure in the British Isles during the Industrial Revolution

Millard¹,

Montgomery²,

Trickett³

et al. 2014

Modern Environments and Human Health

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'Childhood lead exposure in the British Isles during the industrial revolution.', in Modern environments and human health : revisiting the second epidemiological transition. , pp. 279-300.Further information on publisher's website:http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118504208.html Publisher's copyright statement:Additional information:To be published in 'Modern environments and human health : revisiting the second epidemiological transition' edited by Molly K. Zuckerman and published by Wiley-Blackwell, April 2014 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. The 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-profit 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 wayThe 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. association between lead exposure and cribra orbitalia (as a possible indicator of anaemia caused by plumbism), but do show population differences which we attribute to lower exposure of poor and rural people compared to rich and urban people. No differences in lead exposure by sex were found. Lead isotope ratios indicate that coal smoke was not a major contributor to lead exposure, but that ingested lead from artefacts is the most likely source. We show that the lead to which people were exposed in the post-medieval period has a similar average isotope ratio to that in the Roman period, but differs from early and later medieval periods.

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Childhood Lead Exposure in the British Isles during the Industrial Revolution

Millard¹,

Montgomery²,

Trickett³

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Modern Environments and Human Health

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“…Due to shared chemical similarities, strontium isotopes readily substitute for calcium in the skeleton and are integrated into the bioapatite of bone and teeth. This relationship between geology and skeletal chemistry has been exploited in provenance studies from a wide range of geographical contexts (e.g., Sealy et al, 1995;Ezzo et al, 1997;Beard and Johnson, 2000;Price et al, 2000;Montgomery et al, 2005). The strontium isotope abundance most commonly analyzed in human and animal skeletal material is the radiogenic 8 7 S r , which is normalized against the nonradiogenic 8 6 S r , cancelling out variations in total strontium (Budd et al, 2004;Bentley, 2006).…”

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Mobility, mortality, and the middle ages: Identification of migrant individuals in a 14th century black death cemetery population

Kendall

Montgomery

Evans

et al. 2012

American J Phys Anthropol

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(2013) 'Mobility, mortality, and the middle ages : identication of migrant individuals in a 14th century black death cemetery population.', American journal of physical anthropology., 150 (2). pp. 210-222. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22194 Publisher's copyright statement: This is the accepted version of the following article: Kendall, E.J., Montgomery, J., Evans, J.A., Stantis, C. and Mueller, V. (2013), Mobility, mortality, and the middle ages: Identication of migrant individuals in a 14th century black death cemetery population. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 150 (2): 210-222, which has been published in nal form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22194. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.Additional information: 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. ABSTRACT 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 tumultuous period of history in Britain, with severely erratic weather patterns, the Great Famine of 1315-1322, the Scottish Wars of Independence, and the Hundred Years' War providing additional migration pressures to the ordinary economic issues drawing individuals to their capital under more stable conditions. East Smithfield Black Death Cemetery (Royal Mint) had a documented use period of only 2 years (AD 1348(AD -1350, providing a precise historical context (~50 years) for data. Adults (n = 30) from the East Smithfield site were sampled for strontium and oxygen stable isotope analyses of tooth enamel. Five individuals were demonstrated to be statistical outliers through the combined strontium and oxygen isotope data. Potential origins for migrants ranged from London's surrounding hinterlands to distant portions of northern and western Britain. Historic food sourcing practices for London were found to be an important factor for consideration in a broader than expected 8 7 S r / 8 6 S r range reflected in a comparison of enamel samples from three London datasets. The pooled dataset demonstrated a high level of consistency between site data, divergent from the geologically predicted range. We argue that this supports the premise that isotope data in human populations must be approached as a complex interaction between behavior and environment and thus should be interpre...

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“…Although geologists initially used the natural variation of strontium isotopes in the environment to date igneous and sedimentary rocks, researchers in archaeology, biology, geology and paleontology have begun to utilize the fact that different geologic environments have different strontium isotope ratios to answer a wide variety of questions, such as the identification of animal migration pat-terns (Hoppe 2004;Hoppe et al 1999;Ingram and Weber 1999;Kennedy et al 1997). However, most strontium isotope analyses in archaeology have been used to answer questions about human migration (Bentley 2006;Bentley et al 2003;Bentley et al 2002;Ezzo et al 1997;Ezzo and Price 2002;Farnum et al 2003;Grupe et al 1997;Knudson 2004;Knudson et al 2004;Montgomery et al 2003;Montgomery et al 2005;Price et al 2001;Price et al 1998;Price et al 1994;Price et al 2000;Price et al 2006;Schweissing and Grupe 2003a, b;Sealy et al 1995;Sealy et al 1991;Sillen et al 1998;Wright 2005a, b).…”

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Examining the Life History of an Individual From Solcor 3, San Pedro De Atacama: Combining Bioarchaeology and Archaeological Chemistry

Torres‐Rouff

Knudson

2007

Chungará (Arica)

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Continuity or colonization in Anglo‐Saxon England? Isotope evidence for mobility, subsistence practice, and status at West Heslerton

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Childhood Lead Exposure in the British Isles during the Industrial Revolution

Childhood Lead Exposure in the British Isles during the Industrial Revolution

Mobility, mortality, and the middle ages: Identification of migrant individuals in a 14th century black death cemetery population

Examining the Life History of an Individual From Solcor 3, San Pedro De Atacama: Combining Bioarchaeology and Archaeological Chemistry

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