Fractionation of oxygen isotopes between mammalian bone-phosphate and environmental drinking water

Luz, Boaz; Kolodny, Yehoshua; Horowitz, Michal

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“…Oxygen isotope ratios in the tooth enamel of large mammals closely reflect the isotopic content of ingested water, consumed by drinking and through the intake of water in food (Longinelli, 1984;Luz et al, 1984;Bryant and Froelich, 1995;Kohn, 1996). Ingested waters are, in turn, primarily controlled by the isotopic content of local precipitation, which in continental environments is determined by near-surface air temperature (e.g.…”

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Investigating climate at the Upper Palaeolithic site of Kraków Spadzista Street (B), Poland, using oxygen isotopes

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O’Connell²,

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Between 50,000 and 20,000 years ago, Europe experienced a series of rapid climate change events known as the Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles, which may have made areas of northern Europe more attractive for occupation by early modern humans at certain times than at others. This paper investigates when humans were occupying northern Europe in relation to these climatic changes at the archaeological site of Kraków Spadzista Street (B), by applying oxygen isotope analysis of mammoth tooth enamel carbonates (δ18O and δ13C) found at the site. The new isotopic data suggest that mean annual temperatures at Kraków Spadzista were 4-9oC colder than present and, based on comparisons with previously published isotopic data for mammoth in Europe, we argue that the Kraków assemblage most likely formed during a cold Dansgaard-Oeschger event. This suggests modern humans were able to occupy and survive in this area of northern Europe during the harsh cold phases that affected Europe at this time. ABSTRACTBetween 50,000 and 20,000 years ago, Europe experienced a series of rapid climate change events known as the Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles, which may have made areas of northern Europe more attractive for occupation by early modern humans at certain times than at others. This paper investigates when humans were occupying northern Europe in relation to these climatic changes at the archaeological site of Kraków Spadzista Street (B), by applying oxygen isotope analysis of mammoth tooth enamel carbonates (δ 18 O and δ 13 C) found at the site. The new isotopic data suggest that mean annual temperatures at Kraków Spadzista were 4-9 o C colder than present and, based on comparisons with previously published isotopic data for mammoth in Europe, we argue that the Kraków assemblage most likely formed during a cold DansgaardOeschger event. This suggests modern humans were able to occupy and survive in this area of northern Europe during the harsh cold phases that affected Europe at this time.

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Investigating climate at the Upper Palaeolithic site of Kraków Spadzista Street (B), Poland, using oxygen isotopes

Pryor¹,

O’Connell²,

Wojtal³

et al. 2013

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“…The ap pli ca tion of ox y gen iso tope anal y ses and their ad van tage for palaeoclimatic study was dem on strated more than thirty years ago (Longinelli, 1984;Luz et al, 1984;Luz and Kolodny, 1985), al though most of early in ves ti ga tions were based on mea sure ments made by IRMS tech nique with its spe cific pro ce dure and lim i tations. The ox y gen iso tope data ex ist ing in lit er ature mostly re flect an av er aged com po si tion of den tal tis sue pre sented as a mean value of d 18 O.…”

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“…A spe cies-spe cific diet (e.g., consump tion of solid food, par tic u larly veg e ta bles), phys i o log i cal ef fects, and the en vi ron ment may in flu ence the ox y gen iso tope en rich ment be tween in gested wa ter and enamel. De spite the com bined ef fects of these fac tors on the iso to pic com po si tion of mam ma lian teeth (Ta ble 1), the ox y gen iso tope com po si tion of hu man bioapatite mainly re flects the d 18 O value of lo cal source wa ter (Longinelli, 1984;Luz et al, 1984;Luz and Kolodny, 1985;Dupras and Schwarcz, 2001). The d 18 O wa ter value varies sea son ally due to a range of cli ma tic vari ables in clud ing the amount of pre cip i ta tion and air tem per a ture at mid dle to high lat i tudes; it tends to be more pos i tive in sum mer (e.g., Ró¿añski et al, 1993;Gregoricka, 2011).…”

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“…The ox y gen iso to pic com po si tion of hu man bioapatite is related to the iso to pic com po si tion of lo cal drink ing wa ter (Longinelli, 1984;Luz et al, 1984). In most lo ca tions, avail abil ity of po - Re con struct ing sea son al ity us ing d 18 O in in cre men tal lay ers of hu man enamel...…”

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“…More over, the ox y gen iso tope com po si tion of enamel re mains fixed (i.e. enamel is no lon ger me tab o lized by the body), pro vid ing a nearly con tin u ous sta ble iso tope re cord that may cover a pe riod from months to years and that can be re tained for thou sands of years af ter fossil iza tion (Kohn and Cerling, 2002).The iso to pic anal y sis of enamel has been used to study sea sonal di etary hab its of both mod ern and ar chae o log i cal fauna (Fricke and O'Neil, 1996;Stu art-Wil liams and Schwarcz, 1997;Fricke et al, 1998;Balasse, 2003;Blaise and Balasse, 2011;Stevens et al, 2011), how ever, se quen tial intra-tooth isoto pic vari a tion has re ceived lit tle at ten tion in the stud ies of archae o log i cal hu man re mains.The ox y gen iso to pic com po si tion of hu man bioapatite is related to the iso to pic com po si tion of lo cal drink ing wa ter (Longinelli, 1984;Luz et al, 1984). In most lo ca tions, avail abil ity of po - Re con struct ing sea son al ity us ing d 18 O in in cre men tal lay ers of hu man enamel...…”

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Re con struct ing sea son al ity us ing d 18 O in in cre men tal lay ers of hu man enamel: a test of the an a lyt i cal pro to col de vel oped for SHRIMP IIe/MC ion microprobe Ewa A num ber of re cent stud ies deal ing with palaeoclimate and en vi ron men tal re con struc tion in clude the mea sure ment of ox ygen iso tope com po si tion of mam ma lian teeth. Some of them ana lyse a tem po ral se quence of the changes re corded in bioapatite from enamel lay ers rep re sent ing the whole pe riod of tooth de vel op ment. Enamel sam ples dis play large intra-tooth d 18 O vari a tions that may re flect a sea sonal fluc tu a tion in the d 18 O of lo cal palaeoclimate pa ram e ters. The pres ent pa per provides an ef fec tive an a lyt i cal pro to col for se quen tial d 18 O anal y sis of hu man teeth us ing SHRIMP IIe/MC ion microprobe. It is pos si ble to fol low the in ner enamel layer along enamel-dentine junc tion on a high spa tial scale in a range about 0.02 mm of spot di am e ter and 0.12-0.14 mm of the dis tance be tween spots. Us ing the meth od ol ogy de scribed herein, we can achieve an ex ter nal pre ci sion for d 18 O anal y sis <0.2‰ (1s). The num ber of 60 to 90 sin gle anal y ses cov er ing the enamel layer between the incisal and api cal ends is enough to ob tain tem po ral res o lu tion of less than one month and to doc u ment pre cisely sea sonal fluc tu a tion caused by lo cal en vi ron men tal and cli mate fac tors. The meth od ol ogy of d 18 O in situ mea sure ments has been tested on hu man teeth from Tell Majnuna, a 4th mil len nium BCE cem e tery in North ern Mes o po ta mia, which is a rel atively arid area with high sea sonal dif fer ences in pre cip i ta tion and tem per a ture. Ob served pat tern of d 18 O vari a tions is consis tent with ex pected sea sonal fluc tu a tions, al though the over all ef fect is blurred by some in er tia in the enamel mat u ra tion.Key words: palaeoclimate, bioapatite, hu man teeth, se quen tial microsampling, Mid dle East, Mes o po ta mia. INTRODUCTIONOx y gen iso tope anal y sis of den tal enamel is a pow er ful tool for palaeo bio logi cal and ar chae o log i cal stud ies as an in di ca tor of the pa ram e ters of phys i ol ogy, nat u ral en vi ron ment and hab itat pref er ences. A par tic u larly prom is ing ap proach is to measure intra-tooth vari a tion (Ballase, 2003;Blaise and Balasse, 2011;Stevens et al., 2011), be cause teeth ac cu mu late a sequence of sig nif i cant iso to pic in for ma tion cov er ing the short time of enamel bioapatite pro gres sive for ma tion.The ox y gen iso tope in ves ti ga tions of mam ma lian den tal enamel are based on a few gen eral as sump tions that:-the tis sues of or gan ism iso to pi cally equil i brated with their en vi ron ment will re flect the lo cal en vi ron men tal oxy gen ra tio; -iso to pic sig na ture of skel e tal tis sues is di rectly re lated to that of the lo cal drink ing wa ter; -bioapatite, the main com po nent of teeth, is rel a tively most re sis tant to diagenetic pro cesses and pre serves it...

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Oxygen isotopic composition of mammalian skeletal phosphate from the Natufian Period, Hayonim Cave, Israel: Diagenesis and paleoclimate

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Fractionation of oxygen isotopes between mammalian bone-phosphate and environmental drinking water

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Investigating climate at the Upper Palaeolithic site of Kraków Spadzista Street (B), Poland, using oxygen isotopes

Investigating climate at the Upper Palaeolithic site of Kraków Spadzista Street (B), Poland, using oxygen isotopes

Reconstructing seasonality using d18O in incremental layers of human enamel: a test of the analytical protocol developed for SHRIMP IIe/MC ion microprobe

Oxygen isotopic composition of mammalian skeletal phosphate from the Natufian Period, Hayonim Cave, Israel: Diagenesis and paleoclimate

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