“…While a large number of studies have focussed on measuring Sr isotopes in archeological human and animal remains (e.g., Price et al, 2006;Bentley, 2013;Laffoon et al, 2014) or charred/carbonized grains (e.g., Benson et al, 2010; though not always successfullysee Styring et al, 2019), as well as on modern plants to establish a biologically available Sr baseline (e.g., Evans et al, 2010;Snoeck et al, 2016Snoeck et al, , 2020, less has been done with archeological wood remains. Exceptions include a study of the well-preserved desiccated structural timbers at Chaco Canyon (English et al, 2001), and of desiccated prehistoric willow and tule textiles in the Great Basin (Benson et al, 2006), as well as some more recent work on pre-Columbian wood sculptures from Florida (Ostapkowicz et al, 2017a) and Trinidad (Ostapkowicz et al, 2017b), waterlogged shipwrecks (Rich et al, 2016;Hajj et al, 2017;Van Ham-Meert et al, 2020), and South American/Lesser Antillean wooden clubs from museum collections (Ostapkowicz et al, 2018). Little targeted research has focused on pretreatments for archeological wood.…”