Langbeschreibung
This volume provides a state-of-the-art presentation and discussion of procedures, especially what works and what doesn't - on isotopic proveniencing, learned over the last 30 years. The volume focuses on application, not method, to emphasize to the reader the wide range of questions that can be addressed using isotopic proveniencing. Topics covered include samples, baselines, isoscapes, and place of origin.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface.- Chapter 1. An Introduction to isotopic proveniencing (T.D. Price).- Chapter 2. Isotopic analyses in the Andes: From the macro- to micro-scale (K. Knudson, Christina M. Torres, and William Pestle).- Chapter 3. Oxygen isotope values in the Maya Region (C. Freiwald).- Chapter 4. Common ground: investigating land use and community through strontium isotope analysis of Bronze Age cremations from Dunragit, southwest Scotland (R. Schulting, John Pouncett, Christophe Snoeck, Hannah F. James, and Warren Bailie).- Chapter 5. Traveling up hill and down dale: using isotopic studies of human and animal mobility in Chalcolithic Portugal to investigate intraregional patterns of social and economic relationships in late prehistory (A. Waterman).- Chapter 6. The transition to agriculture (T.D. Price and Dusan Boriç).- Chapter 7. Pb isotopes and human mobility: natural, cultural, or diagenetic signal? (G. Kamenov & J. Krigbaum).- Chapter 8. Sulphur isotope ratios of archaeological human collagen as a mobility indicator (M.P. Richards).- Chapter 9. Application of Gaussian-Mixture Model clustering for the resolution of multi-isotope fingerprints (A. Göhring, G. Grupe, and P. Kröger).- Chapter 10. Conclusions and recommendations (T.D. Price).- Index.