Isotopic Landscapes in Bioarchaeology

This work takes a critical look at the current concept of isotopic landscapes ("isoscapes") in bioarchaeology and its application in future research. It specifically addresses the research potential of cremated finds, a somewhat neglected bioarchaeological substrate, resulting primarily fr...

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Other Authors: Grupe, Gisela (Editor), McGlynn, George C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Unanswered Questions in the Evolution of Biomineralization
  • Complexities of the Ancient Mortuary Rite of Cremation: An Osteoarchaeological Conundrum
  • Bones, Rocks, and Flames: Mineralogy and Petrology of Slags and Cremated Bones from Ritual Immolation Sites in Tyrol
  • Radiocarbon Dating of Cremated Finds: An Overview
  • Mineralogic Characterisation of Archaeological Bone
  • Assessing the ‘local’ 87Sr/86Sr Ratio for Humans
  • Determination of Geo-dependent Bio-available 87Sr/86Sr Isotopic Ratios for Archaeoelogical Sites from the Inn Valley (Austria) – a Model Calculation
  • Provenancing Bronze: Exclusion, Inclusion, Uniqueness, and Occam’s Razor
  • Linking Oxygen Isotopes of Animal-bone Phosphate with Altimetry – Results from Archaeological Finds from a Transect in the Alps
  • Oxygen and Hydrogen Stable Isotopes in Earth’s Hydrologic Cycle
  • Toward an Integrated Isotope Zooarchaeology
  • Assigning Elephant Ivory with Stable Isotopes
  • Towards Predicting Places of Origin from Isotopic Fingerprints – A case study on the Mobility of People in the Central European Alps