Collagen turnover in the adult femoral mid-shaft: modeled from anthropogenic radiocarbon tracer measurements.

By R. Hedges, J. Clement, C. Thomas, Tamsin C. O’Connell. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2007

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Subfields: Archeology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Paleontology

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Early Neolithic diet and animal husbandry: stable isotope evidence from three Linearbandkeramik (LBK) sites in Central Germany (2011, background): “…because they should represent a more recent time frame compared to long bones due to generally higher rates of turnover, whereas the collagen of long bones can comprise isotopic signatures leading back to a differing diet in an individual’s adolescence or even childhood (Hedges et al., 2007).”
Neanderthal diets in central and southeastern Mediterranean Iberia (2013, background): “Although bone is renewed constantly, since collagen turnover is quite low and decreases significantly after the growth period, collagen stable isotope values reflect an average diet thought to represent at least 5e15 years of an individual’s life prior to its death (Hedges et al., 2007).”
Stable isotopes reveal seasonal competition for resources between late Pleistocene bison (Bison) and horse (Equus) from Rancho La Brea, southern California (2009, background): “The difference in results is likely due to the fact that the Coltrain et al. (2004) study analyzed collagen, a tissue that averages diet over many years (Stenhouse and Baxter, 1979; Hedges et al., 2007),while the tooth enamel samples likely represent the diet over one month or less.”
Estimating weaning and early childhood diet from serial micro-samples of dentin collagen (2011, positive): “Correcting for this delay due to remodeling is difficult because the magnitude of the effect varies with age (see Hedges et al., 2007), with faster bone turnover rates in infancy compared to early childhood.”
Small scale camelid husbandry on the north coast of Peru (Virú Valley): Insight from stable isotope analysis (2014, background): “These smaller variations will most likely be dampened by the slow turnover rate of collagen, which reflects dietary intake over at least the last several years of an animal’s life (Hedges et al., 2007) and inter-individual variation would therefore be low.”
Assessing the life history of an andean traveller through biogeochemistry: Stable and radiogenic isotope analyses of archaeological human remains from Northern Chile (2012, background): “0% per year for adult males (Hedges et al., 2007); similar turnover rates would be expected for the tibia.”
Childhood diet : a closer examination of the evidence from dental tissues using stable isotope analysis of incremental human dentine. (2013, background): “More importantly, it can only provide a very general indication of weaning age, because bone is a dynamic tissue that is constantly remodelled (Hedges et al. 2007).”
New Directions in Bioarchaeology: Recent Contributions to the Study of Human Social Identities (2008, background): “Our increasing understanding of the complex behavior of carbon and nitrogen isotopes in the human body has led to a better appreciation of the age and sex variability of bone turnover rates and the long residence time of carbon in bone collagen (Hedges et al. 2007).”