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0000-0001-5302-6405
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Durham University
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-12-2012
DOI: 10.1002/AJPA.22203
Abstract: Treponematosis has been one of the most studied and debated infectious diseases in paleopathology, particularly from the standpoint of its origin, evolution, and transmission. This study links evidence for treponematosis in skeletons from the 14th-16th century AD cemetery of the Augustinian friary of Hull Magistrates Court, England, with data from stable isotope analysis to test the hypothesis that the people with treponemal disease buried at this site were not locally born and raised. The objective is to explore the potential of using stable isotope data to track the place of origin and extent of mobility of in iduals with an infectious disease. Dental enamel s les of 12 skeletons were selected for strontium ((87) Sr/(86) Sr ratio) and oxygen (δ(18) O) stable isotope analysis based on the presence (six - diseased) or absence (six - controls) of bone changes associated with treponemal disease. The oxygen isotope ratios of all but three in iduals (1047, 1121, 823) overlapped at two standard deviations with the inferred local precipitation range, and only one in idual (1216) had a strontium isotope ratio outside the regional range. Two of the four had probable ossible treponemal bone changes. Those with treponemal bone changes were not demonstrably more likely to be migrants than those without such lesions. However, because of extensive documentary evidence for trade with the Baltic Sea area, and for merchants from towns such as Stralsund, Danzig and Elbing being in Hull, it is very plausible that the four migrants came from the Baltic area or even southern Sweden.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-1996
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-04-2011
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 11-2012
DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009526
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 04-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-2007
DOI: 10.2307/25470438
Abstract: Teouma, an archaeological site on Efate Island, Vanuatu, features the earliest cemetery yet discovered of the colonizers of Remote Oceania, from the late second millennium B.C. In order to investigate potential migration of seventeen human in iduals, we measured isotopes of strontium ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr), oxygen (δ 18 O), and carbon (δ 13 C), as well as barium (Ba) and strontium (Sr) concentrations, in tooth enamel from skeletons excavated in the first two field seasons. The majority of in iduals cluster with similar isotope and Ba/Sr ratios, consistent with a diet of marine resources supplemented with plants grown on the local basaltic soils. Four outliers, with distinctive 87 Sr/ 86 Sr and δ 18 O, are probably immigrants, three of which were buried in a distinctive position (supine, with the head to the south) with higher Ba/Sr and δ 13 C, consistent with a terrestrial, nonlocal diet. Among the probable immigrants was a male buried with the crania of three of the locally raised in iduals on his chest.
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.1130/G23637A.1
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-06-2013
DOI: 10.1002/AJPA.22290
Abstract: Early Medieval England is described historically as a time when people migrated from the Continent to English shores. This study tests the hypothesis that those buried in the Bowl Hole cemetery, Bamburgh, Northumberland were nonlocally born, because of its royal status. Ninety-one male and female adult, and nonadult, skeletons were studied. Isotope ratios of strontium ((87) Sr/(86) Sr) and oxygen (δ(18) O) were generated for 78 in iduals (28 females, 27 males, five "adults," 18 nonadults). The mean Sr value for human enamel was 0.71044, standard deviation (sd) 0.001, and the mean O (δw) value is -5.9‰, sd 1.6‰. Additionally, animal tooth enamel (mean Sr value 0.710587, sd 0.001 mean O value -6.5‰, sd 1.5‰), local soil (mean Sr value 0.709184, sd 0.0006), snail shells (mean Sr value 0.708888, sd 0.0001), and soil s les from a 5 km transect heading inland (mean Sr value 0.709121, sd 0.0003), were analyzed for an indication of the isotopic composition of bioavailable Sr in the modern environment and to assess the impact of sea-spray water s les from a well, local rivers, and standing water were analyzed for local δ(18) O values (mean O value -6.4‰, relative to VSMOW, sd 2.8‰). Over 50% of those buried at Bamburgh were nonlocal. All ages and both sexes produced "nonlocal" signatures some suggested childhood origins in Scandinavia, the southern Mediterranean or North Africa. Stature and other indicators of health status indicated differences in quality of life between local and migrant groups. These differences did not extend to burial practices.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2014
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United States of America
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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