Some Biochemical Aspects of Carbon Isotopic Paleodiet Studies

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Stable isotopes and archaeology in central Chile: methodological insights and interpretative problems for dietary reconstruction (2009, background): “However, it has been demonstrated that the composition of bone in human diets with low protein intake also represents the non-protein components and comes closer to the linear mixing model ( Schwarcz, 2000 ).”
Isotopic evidence for Maya patterns of deer and dog use at Preclassic Colha (2001, background): “carbohydrates and lipids, can affect the carbon source in collagen and hence the difference in !C values between diet and collagen (Kennedy, 1988; Chisholm, 1989; Ambrose & Norr, 1993; Schwarcz, 1999).”
Isotopic paleodiet studies of skeletons from the Imperial Roman-age cemetery of Isola Sacra, Rome, Italy (2004, background): “Marine foods are dominantly protein-rich; it is widely believed that carbon atoms of collagen and other proteins in the human body are preferentially derived from carbon atoms in dietary protein (the so-called “routing” hypothesis, Refs [3,31,54].”