The geographic distribution of bioavailable strontium isotopes in Greece – A base for provenance studies in archaeology

A strontium isoscape of Italy for provenance studies

“…Hobson et al, 2010;Muhlfeld et al, 2012;Song et al, 2014;Chesson et al, 2018;Colleter et al, 2021;Lazzerini et al, 2021). So far, national isoscapes have been produced for several European and extra-European countries, employing and testing several different methods for the spatial interpolation, including machine learning (Montgomery et al, 2006;Evans et al, 2010;Frei and Frei, 2011;Bataille and Bowen, 2012;Pestle et al, 2013;Hartman and Richards, 2014;Copeland et al, 2016;Kootker et al, 2016;Laffoon et al, 2017;Bataille et al, 2018;Hedman et al, 2018;Willmes et al, 2018;Adams et al, 2019;Ladegaard-Pedersen et al, 2020;Scaffidi and Knudson, 2020;Snoeck et al, 2020;Wang and Tang, 2020;Frank et al, 2021;Funck et al, 2021;Washburn et al, 2021;Zieliński et al, 2021).…”

Finding Mycenaeans in Minoan Crete? Isotope and DNA analysis of human mobility in Bronze Age Crete

“…One study attempted to produce a widescale map of the bioavailable strontium values from across all of Greece, and included data from six sites on Crete [ 24 ] (and these results are also included in a more recent paper by Frank et al [ 33 ]) The strontium data from these six sites derive from archaeological bone samples (not tooth enamel), which is not a reliable substrate for strontium measurements as it is often contaminated by post-depositional uptake of strontium from soil [ 29 , 34 ]. Although these results should be used with caution, which was also acknowledged by Nafplioti [ 24 ], the results from these six sites (that include some of the same sites we reported in our study) all show strontium values lower than the marine strontium value and are in line with the strontium values we obtained from animal teeth from the same, or nearby, sites.…”

Paleomobility in Iberia: 12 years of strontium isotope research

“…The described archaeological 87 Sr/ 86 Sr database has been used to elaborate a set of predictive isotope models, known as isoscapes, in a similar manner as the baselines produced for other regions (e.g. Scaffidi and Knudson 2020, Willmes et al 2018, Frank et al 2021). An isoscape consists of a continuous map of isotopic values (in this case, 87 Sr/ 86 Sr values) across a certain geographical area.…”