Focus: sulphur isotope variation in archaeological marine fauna from northern Europe

Craig, Oliver E.; Ross, Reuben James; Andersen, Søren H.; Milner, Nicky; Bailey, Geoff

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2006.05.006

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“…In a number of cases it was possible for us to combine our carbon and nitrogen isotope results with those from sulphur (δ 34 S) isotope analysis, the latter undertaken to examine the possibility of marine influences on the diet of some of the animals presented in this study (Craig et al 2006;Richards et al 2001Richards et al , 2003. Marine water has a δ 34 S value of 20.3‰ (Rees et al 1978;Richards et al 2001) and coastal regions, due to the effects of sea spray and marine inundation, may have elevated …”

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Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain

Madgwick

Sykes

Miller

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Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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This paper presents new carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotope data for European fallow deer (Dama dama dama) in Roman Britain and discusses results in light of evidence from classical texts, landscape archaeology, zooarchaeology and the limited available samples of metric data. The new isotope data presented here are from Fishbourne Roman Palace (Sussex), two sites on the Isle of Thanet (Kent) and a further two sites in London. In spite of small sample sizes the data make an important contribution to the very limited corpus of scientific research on the species and provide new resolution to the nature of fallow deer movement and management in Roman Britain.

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“…S values can help to identify marine influences on the diet which result from being managed in close proximity to the coast (Craig et al 2006, Privat et al 2007, Richards et al 2001, 2003. Although Fishbourne is approximately 6km from the coast in the modern day, in the Roman period the shore would have been far closer.…”

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Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain

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Miller

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“…There have been only a few published studies that have assessed the amount of sulphur in bone collagen as an indicator of the preservation quality of the analysed material (Richards et al 2001;Craig et al 2006;Privat et al 2007). Richards et al (2001) presented the first measurements of direct analysed ancient bone collagen using continuous flow mass spectrometry.…”

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“…Based on calculations using published amino acid sequences, they determined the amount of sulphur in bone collagen to be 0.16%, which was also the value determined by Leach (2003). Another approach for calculating theoretical sulphur percentages in collagen type I was suggested by Craig et al (2006). Here, published DNA sequences from genetic databases of different mammalian species were used to calculate the amount of sulphur containing amino acids and the percentage of sulphur.…”

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“…Sulphur isotope analysis on archaeological bone material has been increasingly applied in archaeology (Richards et al 2001;Craig et al 2006;Privat et al 2007), largely due to technical advances in mass spectrometry, namely on-line continuous flow (Giesemann et al 1994) which allowed the use of relatively small amounts of collagen. Sulphur isotopes of human bone collagen can be used to address questions of archaeological importance.…”

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Establishing collagen quality criteria for sulphur isotope analysis of archaeological bone collagen

Nehlich

Richards

2009

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Sulphur isotope measurements of bone collagen from archaeological sites are beginning to be applied more often, yet there are no clear criteria to assess the quality of the collagen and therefore the validity of the sulphur isotope values. We provide elemental data from different methods (DNA sequences, amino acid sequences and mass spectrometric measurements) which are used to establish a reliable system of quality criteria for sulphur isotope analyses of bone collagen. The difference in the amount of sulphur from fish and mammalian collagen type I led to the suggestion to use different criteria to assess the in vivo character of the collagen between these two categories. For establishing quality ranges, the bone collagen of 140 modern animals were analysed. The amount of sulphur in fish and mammalian bone collagen is 0.63±0.08% and 0.28 ±0.07%, respectively. Based on these results we define for mammalian bone collagen an atomic C:S ratio of 600±300 and an atomic N:S ratio of 200±100, and for fish bone an atomic C:S ratio of 175±50 and an atomic N:S ratio of 60± 20. These quality criteria were then applied to 305 specimens from different archaeological contexts.

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Multi‐isotopic analysis reveals individual mobility and diet at the early iron age monumental tumulus of magdalenenberg, germany

Oelze

Koch

Kupke

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American J Phys Anthropol

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For the Early Iron Age western Hallstatt culture, which includes the site of Magdalenenberg in southwest Germany, it has been proposed that people were mobile and maintained far reaching social and trading networks throughout Europe. We tested this hypothesis by analyzing multiple isotopes (strontium, oxygen, sulfur, carbon, and nitrogen) of the preserved skeletons from the Magdalenenberg elite cemetery to determine diets and to look for evidence of mobility. The analysis of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur isotope ratios in collagen of humans (n = 50) and associated domestic fauna (n = 10) indicates a terrestrial-based diet. There was a heterogeneous range of isotope values in both strontium (0.70725 to 0.71923, n = 76) and oxygen (13.4‰ to 18.5‰, n = 78) measured in tooth enamel. Although many of the individuals had values consistent with being from Hallstatt culture sites within southwest Germany, some individuals likely originated from further afield. Possible areas include the Alps of Switzerland and Austria or even locations in Italy. Our study strongly supports the assumption of far reaching social and economic networks in the western Hallstatt culture.

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Focus: sulphur isotope variation in archaeological marine fauna from northern Europe

Cited by 91 publications

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Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain

Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain

Establishing collagen quality criteria for sulphur isotope analysis of archaeological bone collagen

Multi‐isotopic analysis reveals individual mobility and diet at the early iron age monumental tumulus of magdalenenberg, germany

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