Biogeochemical Approaches to Paleodietary Analysis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ambrose, Stanley H. (Editor), Katzenberg, M. Anne (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Advances in Archaeological and Museum Science ; 5
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.

 Bone Chemistry, Food and History: A Case Study from 19th Century Upper Canada -- Diet and Animal Husbandry of the Preclassic Maya at Cuello, Belize: Isotopic and Zooarchaeological Evidence -- An Overview of Causes for Stable Isotopic Variations in Past European Human Populations: Environmental, Ecophysiological, and Cultural Effects -- Preservation of Isotopic Signals (13C, 15N)_in Pleistocene Mammals -- Preservation of Biogenic Carbon Isotopic Signals in Plio-Pleistocene Bone and Tooth Mineral -- Tooth Oxygen Isotope Ratios As Paleoclimate Monitors In Arid Ecosystems -- Quantifying Histological and Chemical Preservation in Archaeological Bone -- The Use and Abuse of Trace Elements for Paleodietary Research -- Modeling Protein Diagenesis in Ancient Bone: Towards a Validation of Stable Isotope Data -- Some Biochemical Aspects of Carbon Isotopic Paleodiet Studies -- “Consider a Spherical Cow ?” — on Modeling and Diet -- Controlled Diet and Climate Experiments on Nitrogen Isotope Ratios of Rats.