Nitrogen isotopes and the trophic level of humans in archaeology

By R. Hedges, L. Reynard. 2007

924 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Archeology, Ecology, Paleontology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f7d3e264711e9bfe58918bea8a2c7b87ac7a1926

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In Archeology

1. L. Reynard
2. R. Hedges
3. K. Fox-Dobbs
4. M. Buckley
5. P. Koch
6. Mark T. Clementz

In Ecology

1. Mark T. Clementz
2. P. Wheatley
3. K. Fox-Dobbs
4. L. Reynard
5. R. Hedges
6. P. Koch
7. M. Buckley
8. D. Doak

In Paleontology

1. Mark T. Clementz
2. K. Fox-Dobbs
3. L. Reynard
4. R. Hedges
5. M. Buckley
6. P. Koch
7. Kenneth F. Rijsdijk
8. A. Stuart

Citations in the corpus

• Combining histology, stable isotope analysis and ZooMS collagen fingerprinting to investigate the taphonomic history and dietary behaviour of extinct giant tortoises from the Mare aux Songes deposit on Mauritius (2014, background): “However, some difficulties exist in the interpretation of the nitrogen stable isotope ratios, which can be influenced by factors other than diet (Hedges and Reynard, 2007).”
• Early Neolithic diet and animal husbandry: stable isotope evidence from three Linearbandkeramik (LBK) sites in Central Germany (2011, background): “δ 13 C only shows modest enrichment of ~1‰ for each step in the food chain (Ambrose, 1991; DeNiro and Epstein, 1981; Hedges and Reynard, 2007; Minagawa and Wada, 1984).”
• Effects of acid treatment on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in ecological samples: a review and synthesis (2014, neutral): “to reconstruct historical diets (O'Donnell et al. 2003; Hedges and Reynard 2007; Jones et al. 2012); 9.”
• Revisiting old bones: coupled carbon isotope analysis of bioapatite and collagen as an ecological and palaeoecological tool (2009, background): “Isotope geochemists routinely use dN values to parse trophic levels (Minagawa and Wada 1984; Schoeninger 1985; Ambrose 1991; Koch et al. 1994; Post 2002; Hedges and Reynard 2007), but without baseline dN values, consumer dN values are only comparable within an ecosystem.”
• Stable hydrogen isotopes of bone collagen in palaeodietary and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction (2008, background): “values more than expected (see Hedges and Reynard (2007) ).”