“…Sr isotope provenancing has proved exceptionally useful to discriminate local from non-local in human and animal archaeological remains (Bentley, 2006;Chenery et al, 2010;Viner et al, 2010), in modern human forensic studies (Aggarwal et al, 2008, Font et al, 2012 and in ecological studies (Ben-David and Flaherty, 2012;Hobson, 1999) including in modern bird feather keratins (Evans and Bullman, 2009;Font et al, 2007;Sellick et al, 2009). The technique has been extended to finds of archaeological wool textiles (Frei et al, 2009a, Frei, et al, 2009b, Frei, et al, 2010, von Carnap-Bornheim et al, 2007. These studies did not, however, directly test the effect of diagenesis under soil burial conditions, a process which is known to overprint the Sr isotope signature in bone on archaeological timescales (e.g.…”