Research Catalog

Title

Biogeochemical approaches to paleodietary analysis / edited by Stanley H. Ambrose and M. Anne Katzenberg.

Publication

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ambrose, S. (Stanley)
• Katzenberg, Mary Anne.

Description

xxv, 269 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in archaeological and museum science ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Advances in archaeological and museum science ; v. 5.

Subject

• Prehistoric peoples > Food
• Human remains (Archaeology)
• Bones > Analysis
• Teeth > Analysis
• Archaeological chemistry
• Isotope geology
• Archaeology
• Diet in disease
• Isotopes
• Archaeology
• Diet
• Bone and Bones > chemistry
• Isotopes
• Tooth > chemistry
• archaeology
• Diet in disease
• Archaeological chemistry
• Bones > Analysis
• Isotope geology
• Prehistoric peoples > Food
• Chemische Analyse
• Paläontologie
• Knochenfund
• Ernährung
• Voedingsgedrag
• Mensen
• Chemische analyses
• Archeologische vondsten
• Hominidés fossiles > Aliments
• Restes humains (archéologie)
• Os > Analyse
• Dents > Analyse
• Chimie en archéologie
• Géochimie isotopique

Note

• "Published in cooperation with the Society for Archaeological Sciences."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Bone chemistry, food and history : a case study from 19th century upper Canada / M. Anne Katzenberg, Shelley R. Saunders, Sylvia Abonyi -- Ch. 2. Diet and animal husbandry of the preclassic Maya at Cuello, Belize : isotopic and zooarchaeological evidence / Nikolaas J. van der Merwe, Robert H. Tykot, Norman Hammond, Kim Oakberg -- Ch. 3. An Overview of causes for stable isotopic variations in past European human populations : environmental, ecophysiological, and cultural effects / Gert J. van Klinken, Mike P. Richards, Robert E.M. Hedges -- Ch. 4. Preservation of isotopic signals (¹³C, ¹⁵N) in Pleistocene mammals / Hervé Bocherens -- Ch. 5. Preservation of biogenic carbon isoptopic signals in Plio-Pleistocene bone and tooth mineral / Julia A. Lee-Thorp -- Ch. 6. Tooth oxygen isotope ratios as paleoclimate monitors in arid ecosystems / Margaret Schoeninger, Matthew J. Kohn, John W. Valley -- Ch. 7. Quantifying histological and chemical preservation in archaeological bone / Susan Pfeiffer, Tamara L. Varney -- Ch. 8. The Use and abuse of trace elements for paleodietary research / James H. Burton, T. Douglas Price -- Ch. 9. Modeling protein diagenesis in ancient bone : towards a validation of stable isotope data / Gisela Grupe, Astrid Balzer, Susanne Turban-Just -- Ch. 10. Some biochemical aspects of carbon isotopic paleodiet studies / Henry P. Schwarcz -- Ch. 11. "Consider a spherical cow-" : on modeling and diet / Robert E.M. Hedges, Gert J. van Klinken -- Ch. 12. Controlled diet and climate experiments on nitrogen isotope ratios of rats / Stanley H. Ambrose.

ISBN

• 0306464578
• 9780306464577

LCCN

00042334

OCLC

• ocm44167239
• 44167239
• SCSB-1208675

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library