Research Catalog

Title

Prehistoric human bone : archaeology at the molecular level / [edited by] Joseph B. Lambert, Gisela Grupe.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1993], ©1993.

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Additional Authors

• Lambert, Joseph B.
• Grupe, Gisela, 1956-

Description

ix, 313 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Human remains (Archaeology) > Congresses
• Archaeology > Methodology > Congresses

Note

• Contains articles presented at an international seminar held from September 2nd to 6th, 1991, in Bad Homburg, Germany.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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[subscript 2], 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, M. E. Subira, S. Borgognini Tarli, R. Macchiarelli, A. Malgosa and A. Palmieri -- Baselines and Variabilities of Major and Trace Elements in Bone / R. G. V. Hancock, M. D. Grynpas, K. Akesson, K. B. Obrant, J. Turnquist and M. J. Kessler -- 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.

ISBN

• 3540553932 :
• 0387553932

LCCN

93021141

OCLC

• 28800611
• ocm28800611

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries