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Isotope analysis in archaeology - diet and mobility and new methods. Managed by Mike Richards

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Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology at UCL Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

04.02.2026 08:56 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Global compilation of bioavailable strontium isotope data - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Global compilation of bioavailable strontium isotope data

New paper out, possibly one of the most tedious projects of my life... it's working name was Project ARDUOUS and boy howdy did it live up to its name πŸ§ͺ🏺
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

26.01.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

So excited to announce the publication of this paper which is the first to come from my PhD! Combing data from the PleistoHERD and DeerPal project we analyse carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur in ungulate bones from the Aquitaine Basin dating between the Ante-Quina and Quina periods.

17.12.2025 14:27 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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A global estimator of C and N isotope baselines for fresh waters Baselines are the pebbles in the shoes of isotope ecologists. The extreme variability of the isotope composition of resources at the base of food webs governs the spatial differences of consumers'...

hot off the press! Led by the mighty Marie Perga, including many members of the FooΞ΄-webs team, and kindly funded by the Foundation for Research on Biodiversity/CESAB

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

15.12.2025 17:28 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So delighted to have worked with Drs Christine France and Julianne Sarancha on this project. With deer samples, we created isoscapes (Sr, O, and S) for the state of Virginia.
Potentially hella useful for archaeology in the region. 🏺πŸ§ͺ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

17.11.2025 22:13 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Stable isotope data indicate origins of mislabelled historical bird specimens | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Rafael Dantas Lima, Ana Beatriz Navarro, Jason Newton, Alexander Charles Lees, LuΓ­s FΓ‘bio Silveira | #ornithology πŸͺΆ

15.10.2025 05:38 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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🧬🧬🧬 🦣❀️🦣 🧬🧬🧬

New #CpgSthlm paper led by @maridehasque.bsky.social published in Biology Letters!

Genomic and morphological analysis reveals long-term mammoth hybridization in British Columbia, Canada
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

25.09.2025 20:35 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Check out @benjaminguinet.bsky.social's fantastic thread explaining how he recovered the oldest host-associated microbial genome! 🦠🦣🧬

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www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

03.09.2025 22:06 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory Population movements constitute a significant driver of cultural change in prehistoric societies. In recent years, sulfur isotopes have emerged as a valuable approach for distinguishing human/animal p...

Our new paper is out:

Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory
#stableisotopes

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

29.08.2025 16:21 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

More late Neolithic animals moving about, telling their stories through science: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

20.08.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Congrats to UCD Archaeology's Dr Neil Carlin & colleagues on their new Open Access paper: Guiry, E, et al (2025) 'Pigs, pannage, and the solstice: isotopic insights from prehistoric feasting at Newgrange' out this morning in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 1/3 doi.org/10.1017/ppr....

19.08.2025 09:39 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Frontiers | Emerging strontium isoscapes of Anatolia (TΓΌrkiye): new datasets and perspectives in bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr baseline studies IntroductionThe use of strontium isotope ratio (87Sr/86Sr) analysis in ancient mobility studies in the archaeology of Anatolia (modern TΓΌrkiye) has steadily ...

Our strontium isoscape of TΓΌrkiye is published today in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology!

"Emerging strontium isoscapes of Anatolia (TΓΌrkiye): new datasets and perspectives in bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr baseline studies"

www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

18.06.2025 14:23 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Marine exploitation and the arrival of farming: resolving the paradox of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Denmark The transition to farming in the coastal environments of southern Scandinavia remains a key conundrum in European prehistory. This region was heavily …

Very impressive and incredibly dense paper on the Neolithic transition to farming in Denmark in the centuries around 4000 BC. Specifically squaring the biomolecular evidence for sharp shifts in genetic ancestry and diet indicative of migrations…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

01.06.2025 21:13 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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High-resolution compound-specific Ξ΄15N isotope dietary study of humans from the Scottish Mesolithic and Neolithic
buff.ly/KLlWZ3k
#OpenAccess #AminoAcids #Neolithic #StableIsotopeAnalyses

22.05.2025 20:06 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
High‐resolution compound‐specific Ξ΄15N isotope dietary study of humans from the Scottish Mesolithic and Neolithic You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.

New CSIA isotope paper on Mesolithic/Neolithic Scottish humans showing potential use of marine foods in diets into the Neolithic - congratulations to Valentina and thanks to all of the co-authors

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/AWBVEX...

02.05.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tracking 4000 years of raptor diets through isotope analysis reveals urban scavenging with implications for conservation Birds of prey (β€˜raptors’) often consume anthropogenic foods and can be closely associated with human settlements. In medieval Britain, birds of prey w…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

17.02.2025 06:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain Megalithism has been repetitively tied to specialised herding economies in Iberia, particularly in the mountainous areas of the Basque Country. Legaire Sur, in the uplands of Álava region, is a recent...

Today my new paper was published in Plos One. High-resolution Neolithic life history reconstructions using Incremental dentine, bone collagen, and multi-enamel sampling! I'm really pleased with this one

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
@brusselsbioarch.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social

23.01.2025 13:09 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Non‐Analog Behaviour of Eastern African Herbivore Communities During the Last Glacial Period Drawing from serially-sampled stable isotope measurements from 18 Kenyan large herbivore species from the Last Glacial Period (LGP), we evaluate how diet, diet-switching, and migration compare to obs...

New Article Alert! doi.org/10.1111/ele....

In our newly published paper in Ecology Letters, we use serially sampled strontium and carbon isotopes from 18 species of antelope, buffalo, and zebra from the Last Glacial Period of Kenya to reconstruct herbivore behavior in the Late Pleistocene.
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31.12.2024 19:29 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

New paper from recent graduated PhD student Valentina Martinioa on compound-specific analysis from the iconic Greek site of Franchti Cave. Congratulations Valentina!

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

17.01.2025 22:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

#openscience #opendata #zooarchaeology In case there are people out there are people out there looking for metric, ageing, #isotope etc data from #Greece #Hellenistic dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtm...

29.12.2024 15:53 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The first Belgium’s strontium isoscape is out now!
Amanda SengelΓΈv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon!

Paper hereπŸ‘‡
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social πŸ‘‡https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001

11.12.2024 08:40 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5
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New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna member #MagdalenaBlanz et al. on 'The effect of seaweed fertilisation on sulfur isotope ratios (δ³⁴S) and grain size in barley: Implications for agronomy and archaeological research'

www.heas.at/research/pub...

#HEASPublications

28.11.2024 13:28 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Biosphere isotope domains (Great Britain) - British Geological Survey The biosphere isotope domains data comprises analysis and location specific information for strontium, oxygen & sulphur isotopic variation for Great Britain

A quick plug for the GB isotope biosphere map and its video explanation update.
www.bgs.ac.uk/datasets/bio...

23.11.2024 12:44 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Perspectives on Animal Husbandry and Human-Animal Relationships: A Multi-Proxy Approach - 11 December 2024 - Archonline Date: 11 December 2024 Location: Nijenborgh 6, 9747 AG, Groningen, room 62 (ground floor) Credits: 1 ECT Animal husbandry, encompassing both the domestication and management of animals, has profoundly...

Workshop announcement, dec. 11th. Human - animal relations, including lots of aDNA and some isotopes. Groningen and online: www.archonline.nl/december-202...

22.11.2024 08:08 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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✨Sharing my latest first-author paper here and hoping it will be a good introduction πŸ₯³!! This paper is part of the #NEOGENRE project and we examine the stable CNS isotope compositions of human and fauna from Rosheim (Alsace, Middle Neolithic) in France. journals.openedition.org/bmsap/14186

14.11.2024 03:14 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0