Oxygen and strontium isotope evidence for mobility in Roman Winchester

Eckardt, Hella; Chenery, Carolyn; Booth, Paul; Evans, Jane; Lamb, Angela L.; Müldner, Gundula

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2009.09.010

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“…Current mobility studies often combine analyses of oxygen and strontium isotopes. While strontium is related to and derived from underlying geology through food sources, oxygen carries the advantage of being tied to meteorological trends through water sources, and hence to geographical climatic clines at a basic level (Budd et al, 2004;Evans et al, 2006;Eckhardt et al, 2009;Muldner et al, 2009;Chenery et al, 2010). Tooth enamel is optimal for these analyses, being inert once formed, and additionally resistant to post-depositional alteration (Lee-Thorp, 2008).…”

Section: Identifying Past Mobility Using Stable Isotope Analysesmentioning

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Mobility, mortality, and the middle ages: Identification of migrant individuals in a 14th century black death cemetery population

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Montgomery

Evans

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American J Phys Anthropol

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(2013) 'Mobility, mortality, and the middle ages : identication of migrant individuals in a 14th century black death cemetery population.', American journal of physical anthropology., 150 (2). pp. 210-222. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22194 Publisher's copyright statement: This is the accepted version of the following article: Kendall, E.J., Montgomery, J., Evans, J.A., Stantis, C. and Mueller, V. (2013), Mobility, mortality, and the middle ages: Identication of migrant individuals in a 14th century black death cemetery population. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 150 (2): 210-222, which has been published in nal form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22194. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.Additional information: 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. ABSTRACT Mobility and migration patterns of groups and individuals have long been a topic of interest to archaeologists, used for broad explanatory models of cultural change as well as illustrations of historical particularism. The 14th century AD was a tumultuous period of history in Britain, with severely erratic weather patterns, the Great Famine of 1315-1322, the Scottish Wars of Independence, and the Hundred Years' War providing additional migration pressures to the ordinary economic issues drawing individuals to their capital under more stable conditions. East Smithfield Black Death Cemetery (Royal Mint) had a documented use period of only 2 years (AD 1348(AD -1350, providing a precise historical context (~50 years) for data. Adults (n = 30) from the East Smithfield site were sampled for strontium and oxygen stable isotope analyses of tooth enamel. Five individuals were demonstrated to be statistical outliers through the combined strontium and oxygen isotope data. Potential origins for migrants ranged from London's surrounding hinterlands to distant portions of northern and western Britain. Historic food sourcing practices for London were found to be an important factor for consideration in a broader than expected 8 7 S r / 8 6 S r range reflected in a comparison of enamel samples from three London datasets. The pooled dataset demonstrated a high level of consistency between site data, divergent from the geologically predicted range. We argue that this supports the premise that isotope data in human populations must be approached as a complex interaction between behavior and environment and thus should be interpre...

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Mobility, mortality, and the middle ages: Identification of migrant individuals in a 14th century black death cemetery population

Kendall

Montgomery

Evans

et al. 2012

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…Longinelli 1984;D'Angela and Longinelli 1990;Bryant et al 1994;S anchez Chill on et al 1994;Delgado Huertas et al 1995;Stuart-Williams and Schwarcz 1997;Genoni et al 1998;Longinelli et al 2003;Mannino et al 2003;Hoppe et al 2004;Hoppe 2006;Bernard et al 2009) and also, through this, their use as a tool to determine geographical provenience and mobility in humans (e.g. White et al 2000;Evans et al 2006aEvans et al , 2006bEckardt et al 2009;Chenery et al 2010) and wild and domestic animals (e.g. Evans et al 2007;Pellegrini et al 2008;Britton et al 2009).…”

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Oxygen isotope analysis of human bone phosphate evidences weaning age in archaeological populations

Britton

Fuller

Tütken

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American J Phys Anthropol

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Here we report bone phosphate oxygen (δ(18)Op) values from perinates/neonates and infants (<3.5 years; n = 32); children (4-12 years; n = 12); unsexed juveniles (16-18 years; n = 2); and adult bones (n = 17) from Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire, England, in order to explore the potential of this method to investigate patterns of past breastfeeding and weaning. In prior studies, δ(15)N and δ(13)C analyses of bone collagen have been utilized to explore weaning age in this large and well-studied assemblage, rendering this material highly appropriate for the testing and development of this alternative method targeting the inorganic phase of bone. Data produced reveal (18)O-enrichment in the youngest perinatal/neonatal and infant samples, and an association between age and bone δ(18)Op (and previously-published δ(15)N values), with high values in both these isotope systems likely due to breastfeeding. After the age of 2-3 years, δ(18)Op values are lower, and all children between the ages of 4 and 12, along with the vast majority of sub-adults and adults sampled (aged 16 to >50 years), have δ(18)Op values consistent with the consumption of local modern drinking water. The implications of this study for the reconstruction of weaning practices in archaeological populations are discussed, including variations observed with bone δ(15)Ncoll and δ(18)Op co-analysis and the influence of culturally-modified drinking water and seasonality. The use of this method to explore human mobility and palaeoclimatic conditions are also discussed with reference to the data presented.

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“…This is a project in which archaeologists made sophisticated use of trace element and stable isotope analysis of samples of dental enamel to reconstruct the likely origins and lifetime travel of individuals buried in the late period Roman cemetery of Lankhills in W inchester, U.K. (Eckardt et al 2009, Leach et al 2009). An interpretation of burials in this cemetery dating to the 1970s had focused on material traces that were assumed to be markers of cultural affiliation, degree of "Romanization," and "incomer" status, for example: epigraphy, statuary, and grave goods; patterns of spatial orientation and distribution in cemetery layout; and skull morphology.…”

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“…Local-style grave goods and mortuary treatment proved to be associated with just half the individuals who had local isotopic profiles, as well as with a number of those who likely originated well outside the British isotopic range. In only one case did isotopic profile and burial treatment coincide in suggesting an origin in central Europe, the "Pannonian" affiliation posited for most of those originally identified as "incomers" (Eckardt et al 2009(Eckardt et al : 2824. The results of other cemetery reanalyses found individuals of North African origin buried in elite graves, and several children who were almost certainly born at considerable distance from the region where they died.…”

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How Archaeological Evidence Bites Back

Wylie

2016

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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The 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. AbstractArchaeological data are shadowy in a number of senses. Not only are they notoriously fragmentary but the conceptual and technical scaffolding on which archaeologists rely to constitute these data as evidence can be as constraining as it is enabling. A recurrent theme in internal archaeological debate is that reliance on sedimented layers of interpretative scaffolding carries the risk that "preunderstandings" configure what archaeologists recognize and record as primary data, and how they interpret it as evidence. The selective and destructive nature of data capture in archeology further suggests that there may be little scope for putting "legacy" data to work in new ways. And yet archaeologists have been strikingly successful in mining old datasets for new insights. I situate these concerns in the broader context of debate about the epistemic standing of the historical sciences, and then consider three strategies by which archaeologists address the challenges posed by legacy data. The first two -secondary retrieval and recontextualization -are a matter of reconfiguring the scaffolding that underpins evidential reasoning. The third turns on redeploying old data in the context of computational models that support the experimental simulation of the cultural systems and contexts under study.

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Oxygen and strontium isotope evidence for mobility in Roman Winchester

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Mobility, mortality, and the middle ages: Identification of migrant individuals in a 14th century black death cemetery population

Mobility, mortality, and the middle ages: Identification of migrant individuals in a 14th century black death cemetery population

Oxygen isotope analysis of human bone phosphate evidences weaning age in archaeological populations

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