Estelle Herrscher
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 91807 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Estelle Herrscher |
| PRENOMES | Estelle |
| SOBRENOME | Herrscher |
| ASSINATURA | HERRSCHER E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9339-4325 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 253 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Land management during the Bronze Age in the Upper Seine Valley (France)
During the Bronze Age, the Upper Seine Valley, in northeastern France, was a dynamic region, at the confluence of two rivers and at the crossroads of two cultural entities. Initially aligned with the Atlantic cultural sphere, the area experienced an increasing influence from the Tumulus culture between the 14th and 11th centuries BCE. This interaction led to significant transformations in material culture and funerary practices, notably with crem…
Mobilité ou pratiques sociales ? Évolution chronologique à Ensisheim durant la fin de l’âge du Bronze
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Dynamiques territoriales et changements culturels à la fin de l'âge du Bronze
Dans la vallée de la Haute Seine, au nord-est de la France, la transition entre l’âge du Bronze moyen et l’âge du Bronze final révèle un changement culturel marqué. Les études montrent une évolution des dynamiques de population et des pratiques funéraires, influencées par des groupes venus de l’est, associés à la culture du Tumulus. L’étude se concentre sur deux sites à Marolles-sur-Seine, dans l’interfluve Seine-Yonne : la Croix-Saint-Jacques et…
Morphologie, alimentation et autres comportements humains dans le Pacifique sud il y a 2000 ans
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Changing subsistence practices in pre-European populations of South Vanuatu
First analysis of diet practice of pre-European individuals from South Vanuatu using carbon and nitrogen data from bone collagen. • An expanded baseline of local resources based on taxonomic identification by proteomic determinations (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry). • South Vanuatu humans would have consumed mainly marine coral reef fish, C3 plants, and mangrove resources. Differences in dietary patterns between the islands of South Vanuatu…
Early Childhood in Precolonial South America
This article presents and discusses isotopic data on breastfeeding, weaning, and complementary diet during early childhood in Middle Holocene southeastern Brazil. The study focuses on human individuals from two contemporaneous shell mounds, Piaçaguera (7151–5668 yBP) and Moraes (6791–5590 yBP), which show distinct patterns of infant mortality. We conducted δ 15 N and δ 13 C analyses on collagen extracted from subadult bones (Piaçaguera: n = 13; M…
Archéologie funéraire et (re)connaissance des populations esclavisées des Antilles françaises
Depuis l’abolition définitive de l’esclavage sur les territoires français en 1848, de nombreux éléments qui se rattachent à ce passé aujourd’hui jugé lourd, ont, sciemment ou non, été effacés. Les cimetières des esclaves, entre autres, ont disparu du paysage. À la Martinique, celui de l’Anse Bellay, fouillé entre 2013 et 2019, s’inscrit dans la lignée des quelques cimetières antillais d’époque coloniale dont le statut de la population inhumée n’é…
Stable Isotope Analysis of Human and Faunal Remains from Rosheim, Middle Neolithic, France
La nécropole de Rosheim "Rosenmeer" (RR) (Bas-Rhin, France) rassemble le plus grand assemblage anthropologique d'Alsace du Néolithique moyen, daté de la culture Grossgartach (première moitié du Ve millénaire). Il constitue un site clé du Néolithique d'ascendance danubienne, diffusé d'abord vers le Bassin parisien, puis le reste de l'Europe occidentale. Cette étude présente une analyse des isotopes stables du carbone, de l'azote et du soufre de 61…
Insights into the frontier zone of Upper Seine Valley (France) during the Bronze Age through subsistence strategies and dietary patterns
The Upper Seine Valley sees during the Bronze Age an increase in settlements and cemeteries characterized by a variety of architectures and funerary practices. This variability originates from the coalescence of two cultural traditions, the Atlantic culture from the northwest and the Continental culture from the east, which find its roots in the Upper Rhine area. In this context, our research aims to understand the cultural identity of these comm…
Analyse à haute résolution des pratiques alimentaires des premiers fermiers de la Vallée de l'Aisne (Bassin parisien, 5100-4900 BC)
L’étude des sites rubanés de la vallée de l’Aisne (Bassin parisien, France, 5100-4900 BC) depuis près de 40 ans a permis de mieux comprendre l’organisation des premières sociétés villageoises agricoles. Les premiers fermiers, installés dans les plus grandes maisons semblent plus impliqués dans les pratiques agricoles, tandis que ceux des petites maisons montrent une contribution légèrement plus forte dans les activités liées à la chasse. Ces résu…
Approche multi-isotopique de l'alimentation à Aulnat Zalo, du Néolithique à l'âge du Fer
L’alimentation est le reflet de contraintes écologiques et de choix économiques, sociaux et gustatifs. Appréhender l’alimentation d’un groupe permet alors d’en comprendre son organisation. Les fouilles menées sur le site d’Aulnat Zalo, situé en Auvergne, ont livré des sépultures datées du Néolithique à l’âge du Fer. L’occupation de l’âge du Bronze est strictement funéraire, tandis que des structures d’habitat sont attestées à partir du premier âg…
Health, diet, and mortuary practices in the countryside of Byzantine and post‐Byzantine Boeotia
This paper explores issues of health, diet, and mortuary practices in the countryside of Boeotia, Central Greece, during the Byzantine and post‐Byzantine periods (12th‐19th centuries AD). Boeotia was one of the Byzantine Empire's most important economic and artistic centers with a flourishing life in the cities and the countryside alike and a varied (socially and culturally) population. The human remains unearthed in connection to the church of H…
La maladie hyperostosique fruit des comportements alimentaires ? Examen archéo-anthropologique
La maladie hyperostosique est aisément identifiable, en contexte archéologique, en raison de la présence d’une coulée osseuse antérolatérale au niveau du rachis, due à l’ossification du ligament longitudinal antérieur. Affection fréquente du sujet âgé, principalement masculin, son étiologie est mal connue. Elle pourrait résulter de la combinaison de facteurs métaboliques, génétiques et environnementaux dont l’obésité, la dyslipidémie ou encore le…
"Move, Eat, Repeat" in the Upper Seine Valley (France) during the Bronze Age
The Upper Seine Valley sees during the Bronze Age (2100-900 cal.BC) a significant increase in settlements and necropolis characterized by a variety of architectures and funerary practices. The material culture indicates that this variability is due to a mixture of two cultural traditions linked to the Atlantic culture with influences from the British Isles and the Continental culture with influences from the east that find their roots in the Uppe…
Approches isotopiques des modes d'approvisionnement et de la consommation des ressources animales dans le monde médiéval rural du sud de la France (Horto, Caramany, Pyrénées Orientales)
La consommation des ressources animales par une population est le résultat de plusieurs facteurs environnementaux, économiques et culturels. Le milieu rural du sud de la France au début du Moyen Âge est marqué par plusieurs évolutions dont l’impact sur les pratiques alimentaires et donc la vie de tous les jours restent encore à définir. Le site de l’Horto à Caramany (Pyrénées-Orientales) présente une occupation funéraire quasi continue de l’Antiq…
D reappraisal of trepanations at St. Cosme priory between the 12th and the 15th centuries, France
Disability in a medieval village community
Un handicap institutionnalisé
Dans le champ de l’archéologie du handicap, le lépreux de la période médiévale fait presque figure d’archétype. Physiquement affecté par la maladie, le lépreux occupe une position ambiguë oscillant entre soins au cœur d’institutions spécialisées et rejet. Puisque la lèpre est identifiable par des lésions squelettiques caractéristiques, l’archéologie est en mesure de documenter finement les répercussions biologiques et sociales de cette maladie. C…
Paravani, a puzzling lake in the South Caucasus
Dietary practices, cultural and social identity in the Early Bronze Age southern Caucasus
Food and its interactions with the environmental, economic, social, and cultural spheres play an essential role in communities’ cultural identity. This theory has been verified by an analysis of the Kura-Araxes (KA) culture, characterised by original cultural developments, which spread in the South Caucasus around the middle of the fourth millennium BC. This research aims to study the variability of dietary choices at the individual and populatio…
An isotopic analysis of Late Lapita and State Period diets in Tonga
Les 1000 premiers jours de vie dans les populations du présent et du passé
Les études sur l’ADN ont permis une avancée fondamentale dans notre connaissance et compréhension de la biologie des êtres vivants. Ses apports ont été tellement considérables que l’on a parfois du mal à reconnaitre ses limites qui passent inaperçues relativement à ses atouts. Des études en génétique ont suggéré une différence de moins de 2 % entre notre espèce et notre plus proche parent, le chimpanzé, en apportant ainsi une preuve majeure de no…
The grandeur of death - Monuments, societies, and diets in middle Neolithic Paris Basin
Premiers cris, premières nourritures
Cet ouvrage offre une mise en perspective des pratiques d’allaitement et de sevrage des nourrissons et des jeunes enfants, de la Préhistoire à nos jours. Plus qu’une histoire de l’allaitement, il dresse un bilan des savoirs les plus actuels autour de ces pratiques, depuis les premières minutes de vie jusqu’à l’abandon définitif du lait maternel. Un moment unique, un regard croisé sur les modes d’alimentation des tout-petits et leurs déterminants,…
Longitudinal Study of Stable Isotope Compositions of Maternal Milk and Implications for the Palaeo-Diet of Infants
The classic interpretation of stable isotope data from young children in an archaeological context is based on the hypothesis that the nitrogen isotope ratios present in breast milk remain identical throughout the breastfeeding period. This exploratory study assesses the changes in the nitrogen and carbon isotope ratios in maternal milk and in the nails of the mother and child, with the aim to evaluate the impact of variations in the stable isoto…
Lapita subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns in the community of Teouma (Efate, Vanuatu)
Alimentation d'une population historique
L’usure dentaire, les caries et les atteintes alvéolaires constituent les lésions les plus communes et souvent les plus informatives sur l’alimentation des populations du passé. Toutefois, le développement des techniques chimiques basées sur l’analyse des éléments traces et des isotopes stables contenus dans les ossements, a ouvert de nouvelles voies de recherche. L’analyse des isotopes stables permet de cerner la nature des aliments consommés pa…
Late Upper Palaeolithic human diet
This article reports results of carbon (13C/12C) and nitrogen (15N/14N) stable isotope analysis performed on the bone collagen of a Late Epigravettian human individual and 11 faunal remains from the Upper Palaeolithic deposits of Riparo Tagliente (Verona, Italy). Riparo Tagliente is located in Valpantena on the pre-alpine massif of Monti Lessini, at 250 m a.s.l. Its strategic position, about halfway from the plain and the top of the limestone pla…
Southern French Neolithic populations
The Middle Neolithic of the Northwestern Mediterranean area (∼4500–3500 BC cal) is characterized by the development of food production techniques as well as by increasing social complexity. These characteristics could have had an impact on human dietary patterns. To evaluate human dietary practices and lifeways of the Middle Neolithic populations from the South of France, stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis was carried out on 57 human and…
First Strontium Isotope Evidence of Mobility in the Neolithic of Southern France
This study presents the first 87 Sr/ 86 Sr isotope results obtained on Neolithic humans from Southern France. These analyses aimed at exploring patterns of mobility in the Languedoc and Garonne areas, at sites dated to the Middle Neolithic ( c . 4500–3500 cal BC). Strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel and bone are a useful geochemical tracer to investigate the origin and residential mobility of ancient people. Strontium isotope ratios ( 87 S…
Diet in transitory society
Evidence for Social and Cultural Change in Central Vanuatu Between 3000 and 2000 BP
In the southern Melanesian islands of Vanuatu, as in New Caledonia, Fiji, and West Polynesia, the archaeological record indicates significant shifts in aspects such as patterns of settlement and mobility, landscape use, and pottery production, some 500 years (2500 BP) after initial colonization. The relatively uniform Lapita Cultural Complex, the first manifestation of human activity on these islands, was transformed in each archipelago into vari…
The influence of religious identity and socio-economic status on diet over time, an example from medieval France
Fe and Cu stable isotopes in archeological human bones and their relationship to sex
Accurate sex assignment of ancient human remains usually relies on the availability of coxal bones or well‐preserved DNA. Iron (Fe) and copper (Cu) stable isotope compositions ( 56 Fe/ 54 Fe and 65 Cu/ 63 Cu, respectively) were recently measured in modern human blood, and an unexpected result was the discovery of a 56 Fe‐depletion and a 65 Cu‐enrichment in men's blood compared to women's blood. Bones, being pervasively irrigated by blood, are exp…
Neanderthals versus Modern Humans
During later MOIS3, in Europe two populations were present, autochthonous Neanderthals and modern humans. Ecological competition between these two populations has often been evoked but never demonstrated. Our aim is to establish whether resource competition occurred. In this paper, in order to examine the possibility of ecological competition between these two populations, 599 isotopic data were subjected to rigorous statistical treatment and ana…
An Analysis of the Last 1000 Years Human Diet on Tutuila (American Samoa) Using Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Data
This paper reports the first set of isotopic data relating to human diet from the Samoan Archipelago. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data measured on bone collagen were used to assess dietary patterns of prehistoric communities on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. We examined 14 human bones from three sites dated to three distinct periods: ~1,000 years ago (N = 5); -500 years ago (N = 8) and -150 years ago (N = 1). The isotopie data suggest tha…
Urban and rural infant‐feeding practices and health in early medieval C entral E urope (9th–10th Century, C zech R epublic)
In the Central European context, the 9th and 10th centuries are well known for rapid cultural and societal changes concerning the development of the economic and political structures of states as well as the adoption of Christianity. A bioarchaeological study based on a subadult skeletal series was conducted to tackle the impact of these changes on infant and young child feeding practices and, consequently, their health in both urban and rural po…
Shifting weaning practices in Early Neolithic Cis-Baikal, Siberia
Reconstructing individual dietary histories at Shamanka II, an Early Neolithic (7000-5700 cal. BP) Kitoi hunter-gatherer cemetery in Cis-Baikal, Siberia, revealed surprising intrapopulation variability in childhood diets. Stable isotope analytical data produced by micro-sampled first molars identified changes in both the timing and rate of weaning for different individuals. Further, examination within the framework of a high-resolution radiocarbo…
Archaeobotanical and isotopic evidence of Early Bronze Age farming activities and diet in the mountainous environment of the South Caucasus
Pratiques alimentaires au Néolithique moyen
This paper presents new stable isotope data (δ13C and δ15N) on the Middle Neolithic human group from Pontcharaud (Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France), in order to determine a dietary pattern for both individuals and the entire group. The region considered is particularly interesting for its environmental diversity and for the possibility of exploiting various food resources. The acquisition of new Neolithic palaeodietary data in a geographic area not …
Copper and zinc isotope ratios in human bone and enamel
Objectives Here, we report Cu and Zn isotope ratios of bones and teeth of French people from various historical periods with the aim to understand how Cu and Zn isotope ratios of bone, a tissue that is continuously remodeled throughout life but that is prone to post‐mortem diagenesis, compare with that of tooth enamel, a tissue that forms once during childhood but that is more resistant to diagenesis. Specifically, we examine (1) the potential ex…
Comportements alimentaires en Gaule du Nord
L'analyse des comportements alimentaires constitue un indicateur permettant d'approcher les transformations des modes de vie ou encore les processus d'acculturation des populations au cours du temps. C'est notamment dans le contexte particulier de la Gaule du Nord, entre le III e siècle et le début du v e siècle apr. J.-C., qu'une étude des pratiques alimentaires a été entreprise afin de cerner l'impact de la romanisation sur ces habitudes. Cette…
Insights into the frontier zone of Upper Seine Valley (France) during the Bronze Age through subsistence strategies and dietary patterns
The Upper Seine Valley sees during the Bronze Age an increase in settlements and cemeteries characterized by a variety of architectures and funerary practices. This variability originates from the coalescence of two cultural traditions, the Atlantic culture from the northwest and the Continental culture from the east, which find its roots in the Upper Rhine area. In this context, our research aims to understand the cultural identity of these comm…
Dietary practices, cultural and social identity in the Early Bronze Age southern Caucasus
Food and its interactions with the environmental, economic, social, and cultural spheres play an essential role in communities’ cultural identity. This theory has been verified by an analysis of the Kura-Araxes (KA) culture, characterised by original cultural developments, which spread in the South Caucasus around the middle of the fourth millennium BC. This research aims to study the variability of dietary choices at the individual and populatio…
The grandeur of death - Monuments, societies, and diets in middle Neolithic Paris Basin
Dietary inferences through stable isotope analysis at the Neolithic and Bronze Age in the southern Caucasus (sixth to first millenium BC, Azerbaijan)
Objectives Subsistence strategies are of great interest for understanding how prehistoric societies adapted to their environment. This is particularly the case for the southern Caucasus where relationships have been shown with the northern Caucasus and Mesopotamia since the Neolithic and where societies are alternately described as sedentary and mobile. This article aims, for the first time, to characterize human diets and their evolution using b…
Discussion autour du statut de structures funéraires particulières
Dans l’occident médiéval, l’eschatologie chrétienne offre une conception collective de la destinée face à la mort dans laquelle les individualités semblent être en retrait. Toutefois, à partir du Bas Moyen Âge, le besoin pour les individus de signaler leurs particularités modifie progressivement leur rapport à la mort, aux morts mais aussi à l’Église et à son dogme. En effet, si les premiers travaux portant sur l’histoire de la mort se sont attac…
Land management during the Bronze Age in the Upper Seine Valley (France)
During the Bronze Age, the Upper Seine Valley, in northeastern France, was a dynamic region, at the confluence of two rivers and at the crossroads of two cultural entities. Initially aligned with the Atlantic cultural sphere, the area experienced an increasing influence from the Tumulus culture between the 14th and 11th centuries BCE. This interaction led to significant transformations in material culture and funerary practices, notably with crem…
Dynamiques territoriales et changements culturels à la fin de l'âge du Bronze
Dans la vallée de la Haute Seine, au nord-est de la France, la transition entre l’âge du Bronze moyen et l’âge du Bronze final révèle un changement culturel marqué. Les études montrent une évolution des dynamiques de population et des pratiques funéraires, influencées par des groupes venus de l’est, associés à la culture du Tumulus. L’étude se concentre sur deux sites à Marolles-sur-Seine, dans l’interfluve Seine-Yonne : la Croix-Saint-Jacques et…
Rhinomaxillary changes in a New-Caledonian cranium
Reconstitution des comportements alimentaires aux époques historiques en Europe à partir de l'analyse isotopique d'ossements humains
Alimentation d'une population historique
L’usure dentaire, les caries et les atteintes alvéolaires constituent les lésions les plus communes et souvent les plus informatives sur l’alimentation des populations du passé. Toutefois, le développement des techniques chimiques basées sur l’analyse des éléments traces et des isotopes stables contenus dans les ossements, a ouvert de nouvelles voies de recherche. L’analyse des isotopes stables permet de cerner la nature des aliments consommés pa…
Discussion autour du statut de structures funéraires particulières
Dans l’occident médiéval, l’eschatologie chrétienne offre une conception collective de la destinée face à la mort dans laquelle les individualités semblent être en retrait. Toutefois, à partir du Bas Moyen Âge, le besoin pour les individus de signaler leurs particularités modifie progressivement leur rapport à la mort, aux morts mais aussi à l’Église et à son dogme. En effet, si les premiers travaux portant sur l’histoire de la mort se sont attac…
Lapita subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns in the community of Teouma (Efate, Vanuatu)
Southern French Neolithic populations
The Middle Neolithic of the Northwestern Mediterranean area (∼4500–3500 BC cal) is characterized by the development of food production techniques as well as by increasing social complexity. These characteristics could have had an impact on human dietary patterns. To evaluate human dietary practices and lifeways of the Middle Neolithic populations from the South of France, stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis was carried out on 57 human and…
Neanderthals versus Modern Humans
During later MOIS3, in Europe two populations were present, autochthonous Neanderthals and modern humans. Ecological competition between these two populations has often been evoked but never demonstrated. Our aim is to establish whether resource competition occurred. In this paper, in order to examine the possibility of ecological competition between these two populations, 599 isotopic data were subjected to rigorous statistical treatment and ana…
An Analysis of the Last 1000 Years Human Diet on Tutuila (American Samoa) Using Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Data
This paper reports the first set of isotopic data relating to human diet from the Samoan Archipelago. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data measured on bone collagen were used to assess dietary patterns of prehistoric communities on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. We examined 14 human bones from three sites dated to three distinct periods: ~1,000 years ago (N = 5); -500 years ago (N = 8) and -150 years ago (N = 1). The isotopie data suggest tha…
Es Journées de la Société d’anthropologie de Paris, 25–27 janvier 2012, salle Agora, université Bordeaux-I, Talence
Our understanding of Pleistocene humans has been transformed by the accumulating paleogenomic record from Neandertals and from Denisova Cave. Already we know that these ancient people contributed some of the genetic variation found in living people. The data have the potential to yield many secrets about the health, physical appearance, energetics, behavior and developmental biology of our ancestors. In my laboratory, we are using these genomes t…
Funeral practices and foodstuff behaviour
Fe and Cu stable isotopes in archeological human bones and their relationship to sex
Accurate sex assignment of ancient human remains usually relies on the availability of coxal bones or well‐preserved DNA. Iron (Fe) and copper (Cu) stable isotope compositions ( 56 Fe/ 54 Fe and 65 Cu/ 63 Cu, respectively) were recently measured in modern human blood, and an unexpected result was the discovery of a 56 Fe‐depletion and a 65 Cu‐enrichment in men's blood compared to women's blood. Bones, being pervasively irrigated by blood, are exp…
First Strontium Isotope Evidence of Mobility in the Neolithic of Southern France
This study presents the first 87 Sr/ 86 Sr isotope results obtained on Neolithic humans from Southern France. These analyses aimed at exploring patterns of mobility in the Languedoc and Garonne areas, at sites dated to the Middle Neolithic ( c . 4500–3500 cal BC). Strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel and bone are a useful geochemical tracer to investigate the origin and residential mobility of ancient people. Strontium isotope ratios ( 87 S…
Les pratiques de subsistance de la population Néolithique final de la grotte I des Treilles (commune de Saint-Jean-et-Saint-Paul, Aveyron)
La Grotte I des Treilles (commune de Saint-Jean-et-Saint-Paul, Aveyron) se situe sur l’extrémité sud-occidentale du Causse du Larzac. C’est une grotte sépulcrale à caractère collectif et des datations radiocarbone l’ont attribuée au Néolithique final (3030-2890 cal B.C, phase moyenne du Groupe des Treilles). Cette recherche a pour objectif (1) d’appréhender le type d’écosystème exploité par la population de la Grotte I des Treilles pour subvenir …
Pratiques alimentaires au Néolithique moyen
This paper presents new stable isotope data (δ13C and δ15N) on the Middle Neolithic human group from Pontcharaud (Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France), in order to determine a dietary pattern for both individuals and the entire group. The region considered is particularly interesting for its environmental diversity and for the possibility of exploiting various food resources. The acquisition of new Neolithic palaeodietary data in a geographic area not …
Late Upper Palaeolithic human diet
This article reports results of carbon (13C/12C) and nitrogen (15N/14N) stable isotope analysis performed on the bone collagen of a Late Epigravettian human individual and 11 faunal remains from the Upper Palaeolithic deposits of Riparo Tagliente (Verona, Italy). Riparo Tagliente is located in Valpantena on the pre-alpine massif of Monti Lessini, at 250 m a.s.l. Its strategic position, about halfway from the plain and the top of the limestone pla…
Evidence for Social and Cultural Change in Central Vanuatu Between 3000 and 2000 BP
In the southern Melanesian islands of Vanuatu, as in New Caledonia, Fiji, and West Polynesia, the archaeological record indicates significant shifts in aspects such as patterns of settlement and mobility, landscape use, and pottery production, some 500 years (2500 BP) after initial colonization. The relatively uniform Lapita Cultural Complex, the first manifestation of human activity on these islands, was transformed in each archipelago into vari…
Archaeobotanical and isotopic evidence of Early Bronze Age farming activities and diet in the mountainous environment of the South Caucasus
Urban and rural infant‐feeding practices and health in early medieval C entral E urope (9th–10th Century, C zech R epublic)
In the Central European context, the 9th and 10th centuries are well known for rapid cultural and societal changes concerning the development of the economic and political structures of states as well as the adoption of Christianity. A bioarchaeological study based on a subadult skeletal series was conducted to tackle the impact of these changes on infant and young child feeding practices and, consequently, their health in both urban and rural po…
Biogéochimie isotopique et anthropologie biologique
Comportements alimentaires en Gaule du Nord
L'analyse des comportements alimentaires constitue un indicateur permettant d'approcher les transformations des modes de vie ou encore les processus d'acculturation des populations au cours du temps. C'est notamment dans le contexte particulier de la Gaule du Nord, entre le III e siècle et le début du v e siècle apr. J.-C., qu'une étude des pratiques alimentaires a été entreprise afin de cerner l'impact de la romanisation sur ces habitudes. Cette…
Copper and zinc isotope ratios in human bone and enamel
Objectives Here, we report Cu and Zn isotope ratios of bones and teeth of French people from various historical periods with the aim to understand how Cu and Zn isotope ratios of bone, a tissue that is continuously remodeled throughout life but that is prone to post‐mortem diagenesis, compare with that of tooth enamel, a tissue that forms once during childhood but that is more resistant to diagenesis. Specifically, we examine (1) the potential ex…
Social characterization of the medieval and modern population from Joué-lès-Tours (France)
The social and cultural changes that occurred between the medieval and modern periods in urban contexts are well documented; however, those in rural contexts are less well understood. This research aims to bridge this gap by analysing changes in dietary practices and oral health conditions between the medieval and modern eras, and by identifying their relationship with the social status of individuals buried at the rural site of the church of Sai…
Longitudinal Study of Stable Isotope Compositions of Maternal Milk and Implications for the Palaeo-Diet of Infants
The classic interpretation of stable isotope data from young children in an archaeological context is based on the hypothesis that the nitrogen isotope ratios present in breast milk remain identical throughout the breastfeeding period. This exploratory study assesses the changes in the nitrogen and carbon isotope ratios in maternal milk and in the nails of the mother and child, with the aim to evaluate the impact of variations in the stable isoto…
Multi-isotopic analysis of first Polynesian diet (Talasiu, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga)
“Mind the gap”—Assessing methods for aligning age determination and growth rate in multi‐molar sequences of dietary isotopic data
OBJECTIVES: Creating multi-tooth sequences of micro-sampled stable isotope (SI) analytical data can help track 20+ years of individual dietary history. Inferences about individual and population level behavioral patterns require cross-calibration of the timing of dietary changes recorded by each tooth. Dentin sections from contemporaneous tissues (eg, in M1 and M2) reflect dietary signature for the time of growth. Contemporary sections should pro…
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