Presenting the AfriArch Isotopic Database

Goldstein, Steven T.; Hixon, Sean; Scott, Erin M.; Wolfhagen, Jesse; Iminjili, Victor; Janzen, Anneke; Chritz, Kendra L.; Sawchuk, Elizabeth A.; Ndiema, Emmanuel; Sealy, Judith; Stone, Abigail Chipps; Zoeller, Gretchen; Phelps, Leanne N.; Fernandes, Ricardo

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“…Isotopes are now employed in a variety of archaeological research questions, including the study of subsistence practices, spatial mobility, infant feeding strategies, and human-environment interactions . This research potential has led to an exponentially increase of isotopic applications, and to recent efforts towards 'Big Isotopic Data' initiatives [50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59]. This novel approach operates at varying degrees of spatiotemporal resolution and has the potential to offer multilayered insights into past human and environmental phenomena [52,[60][61][62].…”

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Introducing Isotòpia: A stable isotope database for Classical Antiquity

Formichella,

Soncin,

Lubritto

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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We present Isotòpia, an open-access database compiling over 36,000 stable isotope measurements (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O, δ34S, 87Sr/86Sr, 206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/206Pb, and 208Pb/206Pb) on human, animal, and plant bioarchaeological remains dating to Classical Antiquity (approximately 800 BCE ‐ 500 CE). These were recovered from different European regions, particularly from the Mediterranean. Isotòpia provides a comprehensive characterisation of the isotopic data, encompassing various historical, archaeological, biological, and environmental variables. Isotòpia is a resource for meta-analytical research of past human activities and paleoenvironments. The database highlights data gaps in isotopic classical archaeology, such as the limited number of isotopic measurements available for plants and animals, limited number of studies on spatial mobility, and spatial heterogeneity of isotopic research. As such, we emphasise the necessity to address and fill these gaps in order to unlock the reuse potential of this database.

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Introducing Isotòpia: A stable isotope database for Classical Antiquity

Formichella,

Soncin,

Lubritto

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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“…Isotopes are now employed in a variety of archaeological research questions, including the study of subsistence practices, spatial mobility, infant feeding strategies, and human-environment interactions . This research potential has led to an exponentially increase of isotopic applications, and to recent efforts towards 'Big Isotopic Data' initiatives [50][51][52][53][54][55]. This novel approach operates at varying degrees of spatiotemporal resolution and has the potential to offer multilayered insights into past human and environmental phenomena [52,[56][57][58].…”

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Introducing Isotòpia: a stable isotope database for Classical Antiquity

Formichella,

Soncin,

Lubritto

et al. 2023

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We present Isotòpia, an open-access database compiling over 36,000 stable isotope measurements (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O, δ34S, 87Sr/86Sr, 206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/206Pb, and 208Pb/206Pb) on human, animal, and plant bioarchaeological remains dating to Classical Antiquity (approximately 800 BCE - 500 CE). These were recovered from different European regions, particularly from the Mediterranean. Isotòpia provides a comprehensive characterisation of the isotopic data, encompassing various historical, archaeological, biological, and environmental variables. Isotòpia is a resource for meta-analytical research of past human activities and paleoenvironments. The database highlights data gaps in isotopic classical archaeology, such as the limited number of isotopic measurements available for plants and animals, limited number of studies on spatial mobility, and spatial heterogeneity of isotopic research. As such, we emphasise the necessity to address and fill these gaps in order to unlock the reuse potential of this database.

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The Caribbean and Mesoamerica Biogeochemical Isotope Overview (CAMBIO)

Ebert,

Hixon,

Buckley

et al. 2024

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The Caribbean & Mesoamerica Biogeochemical Isotope Overview (CAMBIO) is an archaeological data community designed to integrate published biogeochemical data from the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, and southern Central America to address questions about dynamic interactions among humans, animals, and the environment in the region over the past 10,000 years. Here we present the CAMBIO human dataset, which consists of more than 16,000 isotopic measurements from human skeletal tissue samples (δ13C, δ15N, δ34S, δ18O, 87Sr/86Sr, 206/204Pb, 207/204Pb, 208/204Pb, 207/206Pb) from 290 archaeological sites dating between 7000 BC to modern times. The open-access dataset also includes detailed chronological, contextual, and laboratory/sample preparation information for each measurement. The collated data are deposited on the open-access CAMBIO data community via the Pandora Initiative data platform (https://pandoradata.earth/organization/cambio).

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Presenting the AfriArch Isotopic Database

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Introducing Isotòpia: A stable isotope database for Classical Antiquity

Introducing Isotòpia: A stable isotope database for Classical Antiquity

Introducing Isotòpia: a stable isotope database for Classical Antiquity

The Caribbean and Mesoamerica Biogeochemical Isotope Overview (CAMBIO)

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