Identifying migrants in Roman London using lead and strontium stable isotopes

Abstract

(2016) 'Identifying migrants in Roman London using lead and strontium stable isotopes.', Journal of archaeological science., 66 . pp. 57-68.Further information on publisher's website: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details.

Going south of the river: A multidisciplinary analysis of ancestry, mobility and diet in a population from Roman Southwark, London

“…The diversity of population and high proportion of migrants in this relatively small sample has identified individuals from the southern reaches of the Mediterranean, a new result for Londinium and provides further evidence for the presence of child-migrants in the settlement (Shaw, et al, 2016 Millard, 2015), throughout the Roman period (Montgomery, et al, 2010, Leach, et al, 2009b, Leach, et al, 2010b and into the Anglo-Saxon period (Groves, et al, 2013).…”

“…Mobility data from earlier studies of Londinium suggests the presence of people born locally or within Britain, as well as migrants from the near Continent but no individuals from southern regions of the Mediterranean, particularly north Africa (Shaw, et al, 2016, Montgomery, et al, 2010. Eckardt et al (2010), (Müldner, 2013) and Pollard et al (2011a) suggest that dietary isotopes can also indicate mobility, as millet and other C 4 plants were rare in Roman Britain (Cool, 2006, van der Veen, et al, 2008.…”

Multi‐isotope provenancing of archaeological skeletons including cremations in a reference area of the European Alps

“…160) was equipped with some grave goods that were common in the Fritzens-Sanzeno culture.The inneralpine burial site of Kundl is archaeologically dated into the late Hallstatt culture and the following earlier phase of the Fritzens-Sanzeno-culture (approximately 300 BC22 ), and the distribution of the human cremations from this site into three different multi-isotope clusters suggests that the eight individuals captured by clusters hc1 and hc2 did not share the same microenvironment with the majority of other humans from this site. This finding could be a good example for what was called "cultural focusing",53 that is the overprinting of naturally occuring lead with its typical local isotopic ratio by anthropogenic lead, e.g. from metal artifacts.…”

Stronger Together: Advancing a Global Bioarchaeology

“…Biogeochemical research once provided only an average of what a person consumed over many years based on bulk bone collagen values, although tissue and hair samples in well-preserved assemblages permitted a window into diet during shorter intervals much closer to the person's death (e.g., White and Schwarcz 1994). Stable isotopes of strontium and oxygen now go well beyond diet reconstruction and are used regularly to trace residential mobility and identify immigrants within a cemetery, providing further insight into life histories of individuals and social networks and population movements in the past (e.g., Bentley et al 2009;Killgrove and Montgomery 2016;Neil et al 2016;Parker Pearson et al 2016;Shaw et al 2015;Valentine 2016;Wright 2012). Stable isotope research is illuminating new aspects of urbanization, immigration, colonization, interaction, and identity (e.g., Buzon and Simonetti 2013;Knudson 2011;Knudson et al 2014).…”