Prehistoric human bone : archaeology at the molecular level
Experimental evidence for the relationship of the carbon isotope ratios of whole diet and dietary protein to those of bone collagen and carbonate / Stanley H. Ambrose and Lynette Norr -- Age differences and population variation in stable isotope values from Ontario, Canada / M. Anne Katzenberg -- Light, stable isotopes and the subsistence base of Formative cultures at Valdivia, Ecuador / Nikolaas J. van der Merwe, Julia A. Lee-Thorp and J. Scott Raymond -- Isotopic evidence for diets of prehistoric farmers in South Africa / Julia A. Lee-Thorp, Judith C. Sealy and Alan G. Morris -- Effect of diet quality and composition on the isotopic composition of respiratory CO?b2?s, bone collagen, bioapatite, and soft tissues / Larry L. Tieszen and Tim Fagre -- Ba/Ca as a diagenetic indicator for evaluating buried bone tissues : advances in tissue selection, reducing contamination and data evaluation / Jonathon E. Ericson -- Reproducibility and reliability of trace element analysis in an Italian medieval necropolis / P. Francalacci ... [et al.] -- Baselines and variabilities of major and trace elements in bone / R.G.V. Hancock ... [et al.] -- Indicators for seasonality in trace element patterns / Bernd Herrmann -- Dietary inferences from element analyses of bone / Joseph B. Lambert and Jane M. Weydert-Homeyer -- The investigation of lipids in organic residues by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry : applications to palaeodietary studies / P.H. Bethell, R.P. Evershed and L.J. Goad -- Initial stages of bone decomposition : causes and consequences / Gisela Grupe, Ute Dreses-Werringloer and Franz Parsche -- The other molecules in ancient bone : noncollagenous proteins and DNA / Noreen Tuross -- Abrasion as an intrinsic factor in palaeodiet / Heinrich Newesely
Joseph B. Lambert, Gisela Grupe (eds.)ill. ; 24 cmContains articles presented at an international seminar held from September 2nd to 6th, 1991, in Bad Homburg, Germany
