Determining sheep birth seasonality by analysis of tooth enamel oxygen isotope ratios: The Late Stone Age site of Kasteelberg (South Africa)

By M. Balasse, A. Smith, Stanley H. Ambrose, Steven R. Leigh. 2003

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Subfields: Archeology, General Health Professions, Paleontology

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Stable isotope insights (δ18O, δ13C) into cattle and sheep husbandry at Bercy (Paris, France, 4th millennium BC): birth seasonality and winter leaf foddering (2012, background): “…this sampling procedure does not permit isolation of discrete growth increments and time segments, but the sequence measured was shown to be chronological in sheep and cattle teeth, as evidenced by unambiguous seasonal cycles in the oxygen isotope values (Balasse 2003; Balasse et al. 2003).”
Bonebeds : genesis, analysis, and paleobiological significance (2007, background): “observation (Balasse et al., 2003; Passey et al., 2005; Zazzo et al., 2005).”
INVESTIGATING SEASONALITY AND SEASON OF BIRTH IN PAST HERDS: A REFERENCE SET OF SHEEP ENAMEL STABLE OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIOS (2012, methodology): “This approach is undoubtedly of great interest for archaeologists, offering new insights into seasonal availability of animal resources, herd management and seasonality of site occupation in past societies (Balasse et al. 2003).”
Seasonality and season of birth of modern and late Neolithic sheep from south-eastern France using tooth enamel δ18O analysis (2011, methodology): “Determining the seasonality and season of births of Neolithic caprines using δ(18)O analysis serves to refine the interpretation of mortality patterns in terms of seasonality of slaughter and consequently helps to define the strategies of Neolithic herders and the timing of farming practices, while ”
Isotopic discrimination of resource partitioning among ungulates in C3-dominated communities from the Miocene of Florida and California (2006, background): “…habitats isotopically, comparing the isotopic values obtained with the patterns observed among taxa in both modern and ancient environments (Bocherens 2003; Feranec 2003, 2004; Cerling et al. 2004) suggests that more positive d13C and d18O values likely indicate residence in more open…”
Stable isotopes reveal seasonal competition for resources between late Pleistocene bison (Bison) and horse (Equus) from Rancho La Brea, southern California (2009, background): “…spanned by the life of that individual tooth, while serially sampling within a tooth provides much finer temporal detail into resource use, generally on the order of weeks, months or seasons (Fricke and O'Neil, 1996; Balasse et al., 2001; Passey and Cerling, 2002; Balasse et al., 2003; Kohn, 2004).”
New light on early caprine herding strategies from isotope analysis : a case study from Neolithic Anatolia (2007, methodology): “Previous studies using isotope analysis as a method of reconstructing animal lifeways have focused on sequential sampling of enamel and dentinal tissues with impressive time resolutions (Balasse et al., 2003).”