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Isotopic evidence for the diets of European Neanderthals and early modern humans by Richards, Michael P, Trinkaus, Erik

“…We report here on the direct isotopic evidence for Neanderthal and early modern human diets in Europe. Isotopic methods indicate the sources of dietary protein…”
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Tooth enamel oxygen “isoscapes” show a high degree of human mobility in prehistoric Britain by Pellegrini, Maura, Pouncett, John, Jay, Mandy, Pearson, Mike Parker, Richards, Michael P.

“…A geostatistical model to predict human skeletal oxygen isotope values ( δ 18 O p ) in Britain is presented here based on a new dataset of Chalcolithic and…”
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Zinc Isotope Ratios as Indicators of Diet and Trophic Level in Arctic Marine Mammals by Jaouen, Klervia, Szpak, Paul, Richards, Michael P

“…Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios of bone collagen are an established method for dietary reconstruction, but this method is limited by the protein…”
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Exceptionally high δ15N values in collagen single amino acids confirm Neandertals as high-trophic level carnivores by Jaouen, Klervia, Richards, Michael P., Le Cabec, Adeline, Welker, Frido, Rendu, William, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Soressi, Marie, Talamo, Sahra

“…Isotope and archeological analyses of Paleolithic food webs have suggested that Neandertal subsistence relied mainly on the consumption of large herbivores…”
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Back to the future: The advantage of studying key events in human evolution using a new high resolution radiocarbon method by Talamo, Sahra, Kromer, Bernd, Richards, Michael P, Wacker, Lukas

“…Radiocarbon dating is the most widely applied dating method in archaeology, especially in human evolution studies, where it is used to determine the chronology…”
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Stable isotope and dental caries data reveal abrupt changes in subsistence economy in ancient China in response to global climate change by Cheung, Christina, Zhang, Hua, Hepburn, Joseph C, Yang, Dongya Y, Richards, Michael P

“…Prior to the introduction of wheat and barley from Central Asia during the Neolithic period, northern Chinese agricultural groups subsisted heavily on millet…”
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Effects of lipid extraction and ultrafiltration on stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions of fish bone collagen by Guiry, Eric J., Szpak, Paul, Richards, Michael P.

“…Rationale Fish bone collagen isotopic measurements are increasingly important in palaeodietary and paleoenvironmental studies yet differences in the chemical…”
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Agropastoral and dietary practices of the northern Levant facing Late Holocene climate and environmental change: Isotopic analysis of plants, animals and humans from Bronze to Iron Age Tell Tweini by Fuller, Benjamin T, Riehl, Simone, Linseele, Veerle, Marinova, Elena, De Cupere, Bea, Bretschneider, Joachim, Richards, Michael P, Van Neer, Wim

“…One of the largest isotopic datasets of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean region is evaluated, based on plants (n = 410), animals (n = 210) and humans (n = 16)…”
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2000 Years of Parallel Societies in Stone Age Central Europe by Bollongino, Ruth, Nehlich, Olaf, Richards, Michael P., Orschiedt, Jörg, Thomas, Mark G., Sell, Christian, Fajkošová, Zuzana, Powell, Adam, Burger, Joachim

“…Debate on the ancestry of Europeans centers on the interplay between Mesolithic foragers and Neolithic farmers. Foragers are generally believed to have…”
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Radiocarbon dates from the Grotte du Renne and Saint-Césaire support a Neandertal origin for the Châtelperronian by Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Talamo, Sahra, Julien, Michèle, David, Francine, Connet, Nelly, Bodu, Pierre, Vandermeersch, Bernard, Richards, Michael P.

“…The transition from the Middle Paleolithic (MP) to Upper Paleolithic (UP) is marked by the replacement of late Neandertals by modern humans in Europe between…”
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Long‐term ecological changes in marine mammals driven by recent warming in northwestern Alaska by Szpak, Paul, Buckley, Michael, Darwent, Christyann M., Richards, Michael P.

“…Carbon and nitrogen isotopes analyses were performed on marine mammal bone collagen from three archaeological sites (ad 1170–1813) on Cape Espenberg (Kotzebue…”
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Stable isotope analysis of human bone from Ganj Dareh, Iran, ca. 10,100 calBP by Merrett, Deborah C, Cheung, Christina, Meiklejohn, Christopher, Richards, Michael P

“…We report here on stable carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur isotope values from bone collagen of human (n = 20) and faunal (n = 11) remains from the Early Neolithic…”
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Stable isotope evidence for 1500 years of human diet at the city of York, UK by Müldner, Gundula, Richards, Michael P.

“…We present here the results of a large‐scale diachronic palaeodietary (carbon and nitrogen isotopic measurements of bone collagen) study of humans and animals…”
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Zinc isotope ratios of bones and teeth as new dietary indicators: results from a modern food web (Koobi Fora, Kenya) by Jaouen, Klervia, Beasley, Melanie, Schoeninger, Margaret, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Richards, Michael P.

“…In order to explore the possibilities of using zinc (Zn) stable isotope ratios as dietary indicators, we report here on the measurements of the ratio of stable…”
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Multi-isotope analysis of bone collagen of Late Pleistocene ungulates reveals niche partitioning and behavioural plasticity of reindeer during MIS 3 by Britton, Kate, Jimenez, Elodie-Laure, Le Corre, Mael, Renou, Sylvain, Rendu, William, Richards, Michael P., Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Soressi, Marie

“…Here we present stable carbon, nitrogen and sulfur isotope ratios of collagen extracted from Rangifer , Equus and Bison bone ( n  = 128) from different…”
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Changing environments during the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the eastern Cantabrian Region (Spain): direct evidence from stable isotope studies on ungulate bones by Jones, Jennifer R., Richards, Michael P., Straus, Lawrence G., Reade, Hazel, Altuna, Jesús, Mariezkurrena, Koro, Marín-Arroyo, Ana B.

“…Environmental change has been proposed as a factor that contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals in Europe during MIS3. Currently, the different local…”
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Strontium isotope evidence for Neanderthal and modern human mobility at the upper and middle palaeolithic site of Fumane Cave (Italy) by Richards, Michael P, Mannino, Marcello A, Jaouen, Klervia, Dozio, Alessandro, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Peresani, Marco

“…To investigate the mobility patterns of Neanderthals and modern humans in Europe during the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition period, we applied…”
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Exceptionally high δ 15 N values in collagen single amino acids confirm Neandertals as high-trophic level carnivores by Jaouen, Klervia, Richards, Michael P, Le Cabec, Adeline, Welker, Frido, Rendu, William, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Soressi, Marie, Talamo, Sahra

“…Isotope and archeological analyses of Paleolithic food webs have suggested that Neandertal subsistence relied mainly on the consumption of large herbivores…”
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Origin and diet of the prehistoric hunter-gatherers on the mediterranean island of Favignana (Ègadi Islands, Sicily) by Mannino, Marcello A, Catalano, Giulio, Talamo, Sahra, Mannino, Giovanni, Di Salvo, Rosaria, Schimmenti, Vittoria, Lalueza-Fox, Carles, Messina, Andrea, Petruso, Daria, Caramelli, David, Richards, Michael P, Sineo, Luca

“…Hunter-gatherers living in Europe during the transition from the late Pleistocene to the Holocene intensified food acquisition by broadening the range of…”
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Isotopic perspectives (δ13C, δ15N, δ34S) of diet, social complexity, and animal husbandry during the proto-shang period (ca. 2000-1600 BC) of China by Ma, Ying, Fuller, Benjamin T., Wei, Dong, Shi, Lei, Zhang, Xiaozheng, Hu, Yaowu, Richards, Michael P.

“…Objectives To examine dietary patterns and animal husbandry practices and assess the links between human diet and sex, age, burial direction/position, and…”
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