Kerry L Sayle
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 921160 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kerry L Sayle |
| PRENOMES | Kerry L |
| SOBRENOME | Sayle |
| ASSINATURA | SAYLE K L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3492-5979 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Younger Dryas reindeer in northwest Europe
Reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus ) played a central role in the subsistence strategies of Late and Final Palaeolithic populations across northern Europe, particularly during the Younger Dryas (c. 12,850–11,650 cal BP). However, while reindeer are known from securely dated Younger Dryas faunal contexts in Britain, they are not associated with archaeological assemblages, and there is currently no conclusive evidence for human presence in Britain at the…
Born to be alive. Isotopic evidence of investment in the survival of immature individuals in the Neolithic period, ecological influences and the construction of social identities
International audience
Author response of
A recommendation of: Samuel Bédécarrats, Mélie Le Roy, Kerry L. Sayle, Frédérique Blaizot, Maëlle Couvrat, Yves Gleize, Guillaume Leduc, Stéphane Rottier, Gwenaëlle Goude Isobiography of the first farmers: effects of age-estimating referential and statistical models on reconstructing infant life https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16362830
Naître et grandir dans l’Algérie préhistorique. Premières approches biogéochimiques sur des sépultures du site de Columnata (XIe-IXe millénaire BP, Tiaret, Algérie)
Découvert dans les années 1930, le site de Columnata (Sidi Hosni, Tiaret, Algérie) a livré du matériel archéologique et funéraire de plusieurs phases chrono-culturelles, de l’Épipaléolithique au Néolithique. Les dernières fouilles (2016-2023) conduites par l’Institut d’Archéologie d’Alger ont mis au jour différentes sépultures d’adultes et d’enfants datant du XIe au IXe millénaires BP. Dans le cadre du projet WomenSOFar (ANR-21-CE03-0008), les co…
Cold and arid climates experienced by Central European hunter-gatherers at Stránská skála IV during the Last Glacial Maximum
Several studies have argued that human presence in Central Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) may have been restricted to brief periods of climate warming. In particular, Greenland Interstadial-2 (GI-2, c.23,300–22,800 BP), a brief warm event recorded in Greenland ice-core stratigraphy, has been associated with human activity at Central European sites such as Kastelhöhle-Nord and Y-Höhle (Switzerland), and Kammern-Grubgraben (Austria). …
Mission impossible? Quantifying aquatic resource consumption in historic period Estonia (AD 1100‒1800)
Sulfur stable isotope ratios (δ 34 S) have become increasingly common in archaeology for studying paleodiet, especially in occasions where there is a need to identify aquatic resource consumption more accurately. This is particularly relevant in the Baltic Sea region, where brackish conditions tend to mask “typical” marine carbon isotopic signals. Here we report new δ 34 S values for 126 human bone collagen samples which will be analyzed together…
La mobilité des enfants au cours de la Préhistoire. Essai d’interprétations à travers une recherche ethnologique et des analyses isotopiques sur le site de Coste Rouge (Néolithique moyen, Hérault, Fra…
une recherche ethnologique et des analyses isotopiques sur le site de Coste Rouge (Nolithique moyen, Hrault, France) Children's mobility during Prehistory
Walking commodities
Carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N), and strontium (87/86Sr) isotope analyses have been applied widely over the past four decades to reconstruct human and animal dietary and mobility patterns. Sulfur (δ34S) has recently shown great promise to further enhance isotope analyses of the geologic and hydrologic contexts in which organic material formed. For this case study we applied this suite of multi-isotopic analyses to a dataset of 45 animal bones and …
Sheep Ahoy
Sheep and their wool were paramount to Viking Age economies. The importance of wool cannot be underestimated, especially as the woollen sail was implemented on ships in general during this period. This paper investigates sheep management and landscape use in Viking Age Löddeköpinge in Scania, southern Sweden, through a multiproxy approach, integrating multi‐isotope methods with zooarchaeological analysis. Using the marketplace at Löddeköpinge as …
The historical ecology of subsistence and early commercial fisheries in mangrove systems in Brazil
Human population growth and the technological advancements of the 20th and 21st centuries have significantly altered human-environment interactions and led to unprecedented anthropogenic footprints on coastal and ocean systems. Despite thousands of years of exploitation for subsistence and, later, commercial purposes, the ecology of mangrove fisheries along the Brazilian coast and the consequences of these activities remain poorly understood. Thi…
Mourir sur le champ de bataille en 1814. Identité, statut social, traitement des corps après la bataille d'Orthez
Ce document a t gnr automatiquement le 18 dcembre 2025.Le texte seul est utilisable sous
A Longobard osteobiography. A multi-proxy life history of an elderly woman from Castel Trosino (Italy)
The Longobard cemetery of Castel Trosino (Central Italy, c. 6th-8th CE) was excavated at the end of the 19th century, with more than two hundred burials recovered. Currently only 19 crania and a few mandibles are preserved. Among these crania, a case of trepanation is documented on an elderly woman (c. 50 y.o.): the medical treatment, or the condition that led to it, likely influenced her life history. A multidisciplinary investigation of the onl…
Growing up in an Italian Copper Age community
The study of children’s role in past communities is difficult to face in archaeology. An active contribution of the children in everyday life varies within societies and cultures, as well as the social and biological definition of childhood. In Central Italy, specific funerary customs for subadults are documented in the Copper Age (4th-3rd millennia BCE) according to age classes. Here we propose to investigate childhood in an Italian Copper Age h…
Multi-isotope analysis of primary and secondary dentin as a mean to broaden intra-life dietary reconstruction. A case from Longobard Italy
This exploratory study proposes an original intra-life history investigation through sequential analysis of the isotopic composition of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur (CNS) on both primary and secondary dentin of a tooth (M1). We focus on an elderly woman from Longobard Italy (6th to 8th c. CE), who showed an unprecedented case of cranial surgery, presented in a companion paper by Micarelli and colleagues. Sequential stable CNS isotope composition …
Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves
Drawing on the results of new multi-method research in Grotta Regina Margherita-the largest known Middle Bronze Age mortuary cave in west-central Italy (ca. 1650-1450 b.c.)-this article helps to replace the generic idea of "collective burial" with a more precise understanding of how the bodies of the deceased were transformed into potent social, symbolic, and sensuous resources housed in caves. It contextualizes this process within a nuanced unde…
Magdalenian and Epimagdalenian chronology and palaeoenvironments at Kůlna Cave, Moravia, Czech Republic
Kůlna Cave is the only site in Moravia, Czech Republic, from which large assemblages of both Magdalenian and Epimagdalenian archaeological materials have been excavated from relatively secure stratified deposits. The site therefore offers the unrivalled opportunity to explore the relationship between these two archaeological phases. In this study, we undertake radiocarbon, stable isotope (carbon, nitrogen and sulphur), and ZooMS analysis of the a…
Seaweed fertilisation impacts the chemical and isotopic composition of barley
Celtic cowboys’ reborn
Matrilines in Neolithic cattle from Orkney, Scotland reveals complex husbandry patterns of ancestry
Stable Isotopes, Chronology, and Bayesian Models for the Viking Archaeology of North-East Iceland
This paper reviews the results of a long-term research project that used stable isotope analyses (δ13C, δ15N, δ34S) and Bayesian mixing models to better model the chronology for a presumed Viking Age cemetery at Hofstaðir, near Lake Mývatn in north-east Iceland. δ13C and radiocarbon dating indicated that many of the individuals consumed a large amount of marine protein, which results in a marine reservoir effect (MRE), making ages older than expe…
Animal keeping in Chalcolithic north-central Anatolia
Deciphering diet and monitoring movement
OBJECTIVES: A previous multi-isotope study of archaeological faunal samples from Skútustaðir, an early Viking age settlement on the southern shores of Lake Mývatn in north-east Iceland, demonstrated that there are clear differences in δ(34)S stable isotope values between animals deriving their dietary protein from terrestrial, freshwater, and marine reservoirs. The aim of this study was to use this information to more accurately determine the die…
Diet at Late Chalcolithic Çamlıbel Tarlası, north-central Anatolia
Islands of change vs. islands of disaster
The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil erosion have presented this story of island colonization as yet another social–ecological disaster, recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research combined with environmental history, environmental humanitie…
Utilization of δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S Analyses to Understand 14C Dating Anomalies within a Late Viking Age Community in Northeast Iceland
Previous stable isotope studies of modern and archaeological faunal samples from sites around Lake Mývatn, within the Mývatnssveit region of northeast Iceland, revealed that an overlap existed between the δ 15 N ranges of terrestrial herbivores and freshwater fish, while freshwater biota displayed δ 13 C values that were comparable with marine resources. Therefore, within this specific ecosystem, the separation of terrestrial herbivores, freshwat…
Seaweed fertilisation impacts the chemical and isotopic composition of barley
Magdalenian and Epimagdalenian chronology and palaeoenvironments at Kůlna Cave, Moravia, Czech Republic
Kůlna Cave is the only site in Moravia, Czech Republic, from which large assemblages of both Magdalenian and Epimagdalenian archaeological materials have been excavated from relatively secure stratified deposits. The site therefore offers the unrivalled opportunity to explore the relationship between these two archaeological phases. In this study, we undertake radiocarbon, stable isotope (carbon, nitrogen and sulphur), and ZooMS analysis of the a…
Islands of change vs. islands of disaster
The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil erosion have presented this story of island colonization as yet another social–ecological disaster, recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research combined with environmental history, environmental humanitie…
Celtic cowboys’ reborn
Utilization of δ 13 C, δ 15 N, and δ 34 S Analyses to Understand 14 C Dating Anomalies within a Late Viking Age Community in Northeast Iceland
Previous stable isotope studies of modern and archaeological faunal samples from sites around Lake Mývatn, within the Mývatnssveit region of northeast Iceland, revealed that an overlap existed between the δ 15 N ranges of terrestrial herbivores and freshwater fish, while freshwater biota displayed δ 13 C values that were comparable with marine resources. Therefore, within this specific ecosystem, the separation of terrestrial herbivores, freshwat…
Animal keeping in Chalcolithic north-central Anatolia
Deciphering diet and monitoring movement
OBJECTIVES: A previous multi-isotope study of archaeological faunal samples from Skútustaðir, an early Viking age settlement on the southern shores of Lake Mývatn in north-east Iceland, demonstrated that there are clear differences in δ(34)S stable isotope values between animals deriving their dietary protein from terrestrial, freshwater, and marine reservoirs. The aim of this study was to use this information to more accurately determine the die…
The historical ecology of subsistence and early commercial fisheries in mangrove systems in Brazil
Human population growth and the technological advancements of the 20th and 21st centuries have significantly altered human-environment interactions and led to unprecedented anthropogenic footprints on coastal and ocean systems. Despite thousands of years of exploitation for subsistence and, later, commercial purposes, the ecology of mangrove fisheries along the Brazilian coast and the consequences of these activities remain poorly understood. Thi…
Walking commodities
Carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N), and strontium (87/86Sr) isotope analyses have been applied widely over the past four decades to reconstruct human and animal dietary and mobility patterns. Sulfur (δ34S) has recently shown great promise to further enhance isotope analyses of the geologic and hydrologic contexts in which organic material formed. For this case study we applied this suite of multi-isotopic analyses to a dataset of 45 animal bones and …
Multi-isotope analysis of primary and secondary dentin as a mean to broaden intra-life dietary reconstruction. A case from Longobard Italy
This exploratory study proposes an original intra-life history investigation through sequential analysis of the isotopic composition of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur (CNS) on both primary and secondary dentin of a tooth (M1). We focus on an elderly woman from Longobard Italy (6th to 8th c. CE), who showed an unprecedented case of cranial surgery, presented in a companion paper by Micarelli and colleagues. Sequential stable CNS isotope composition …
Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves
Drawing on the results of new multi-method research in Grotta Regina Margherita-the largest known Middle Bronze Age mortuary cave in west-central Italy (ca. 1650-1450 b.c.)-this article helps to replace the generic idea of "collective burial" with a more precise understanding of how the bodies of the deceased were transformed into potent social, symbolic, and sensuous resources housed in caves. It contextualizes this process within a nuanced unde…
Diet at Late Chalcolithic Çamlıbel Tarlası, north-central Anatolia
Utilization of δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S Analyses to Understand 14C Dating Anomalies within a Late Viking Age Community in Northeast Iceland
Previous stable isotope studies of modern and archaeological faunal samples from sites around Lake Mývatn, within the Mývatnssveit region of northeast Iceland, revealed that an overlap existed between the δ 15 N ranges of terrestrial herbivores and freshwater fish, while freshwater biota displayed δ 13 C values that were comparable with marine resources. Therefore, within this specific ecosystem, the separation of terrestrial herbivores, freshwat…
Utilization of δ 13 C, δ 15 N, and δ 34 S Analyses to Understand 14 C Dating Anomalies within a Late Viking Age Community in Northeast Iceland
Previous stable isotope studies of modern and archaeological faunal samples from sites around Lake Mývatn, within the Mývatnssveit region of northeast Iceland, revealed that an overlap existed between the δ 15 N ranges of terrestrial herbivores and freshwater fish, while freshwater biota displayed δ 13 C values that were comparable with marine resources. Therefore, within this specific ecosystem, the separation of terrestrial herbivores, freshwat…
Diet at Late Chalcolithic Çamlıbel Tarlası, north-central Anatolia
Islands of change vs. islands of disaster
The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil erosion have presented this story of island colonization as yet another social–ecological disaster, recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research combined with environmental history, environmental humanitie…
Deciphering diet and monitoring movement
OBJECTIVES: A previous multi-isotope study of archaeological faunal samples from Skútustaðir, an early Viking age settlement on the southern shores of Lake Mývatn in north-east Iceland, demonstrated that there are clear differences in δ(34)S stable isotope values between animals deriving their dietary protein from terrestrial, freshwater, and marine reservoirs. The aim of this study was to use this information to more accurately determine the die…
Matrilines in Neolithic cattle from Orkney, Scotland reveals complex husbandry patterns of ancestry
Stable Isotopes, Chronology, and Bayesian Models for the Viking Archaeology of North-East Iceland
This paper reviews the results of a long-term research project that used stable isotope analyses (δ13C, δ15N, δ34S) and Bayesian mixing models to better model the chronology for a presumed Viking Age cemetery at Hofstaðir, near Lake Mývatn in north-east Iceland. δ13C and radiocarbon dating indicated that many of the individuals consumed a large amount of marine protein, which results in a marine reservoir effect (MRE), making ages older than expe…
Animal keeping in Chalcolithic north-central Anatolia
Seaweed fertilisation impacts the chemical and isotopic composition of barley
Celtic cowboys’ reborn
Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves
Drawing on the results of new multi-method research in Grotta Regina Margherita-the largest known Middle Bronze Age mortuary cave in west-central Italy (ca. 1650-1450 b.c.)-this article helps to replace the generic idea of "collective burial" with a more precise understanding of how the bodies of the deceased were transformed into potent social, symbolic, and sensuous resources housed in caves. It contextualizes this process within a nuanced unde…
Magdalenian and Epimagdalenian chronology and palaeoenvironments at Kůlna Cave, Moravia, Czech Republic
Kůlna Cave is the only site in Moravia, Czech Republic, from which large assemblages of both Magdalenian and Epimagdalenian archaeological materials have been excavated from relatively secure stratified deposits. The site therefore offers the unrivalled opportunity to explore the relationship between these two archaeological phases. In this study, we undertake radiocarbon, stable isotope (carbon, nitrogen and sulphur), and ZooMS analysis of the a…
A Longobard osteobiography. A multi-proxy life history of an elderly woman from Castel Trosino (Italy)
The Longobard cemetery of Castel Trosino (Central Italy, c. 6th-8th CE) was excavated at the end of the 19th century, with more than two hundred burials recovered. Currently only 19 crania and a few mandibles are preserved. Among these crania, a case of trepanation is documented on an elderly woman (c. 50 y.o.): the medical treatment, or the condition that led to it, likely influenced her life history. A multidisciplinary investigation of the onl…
Growing up in an Italian Copper Age community
The study of children’s role in past communities is difficult to face in archaeology. An active contribution of the children in everyday life varies within societies and cultures, as well as the social and biological definition of childhood. In Central Italy, specific funerary customs for subadults are documented in the Copper Age (4th-3rd millennia BCE) according to age classes. Here we propose to investigate childhood in an Italian Copper Age h…
Multi-isotope analysis of primary and secondary dentin as a mean to broaden intra-life dietary reconstruction. A case from Longobard Italy
This exploratory study proposes an original intra-life history investigation through sequential analysis of the isotopic composition of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur (CNS) on both primary and secondary dentin of a tooth (M1). We focus on an elderly woman from Longobard Italy (6th to 8th c. CE), who showed an unprecedented case of cranial surgery, presented in a companion paper by Micarelli and colleagues. Sequential stable CNS isotope composition …
La mobilité des enfants au cours de la Préhistoire. Essai d’interprétations à travers une recherche ethnologique et des analyses isotopiques sur le site de Coste Rouge (Néolithique moyen, Hérault, Fra…
une recherche ethnologique et des analyses isotopiques sur le site de Coste Rouge (Nolithique moyen, Hrault, France) Children's mobility during Prehistory
Walking commodities
Carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N), and strontium (87/86Sr) isotope analyses have been applied widely over the past four decades to reconstruct human and animal dietary and mobility patterns. Sulfur (δ34S) has recently shown great promise to further enhance isotope analyses of the geologic and hydrologic contexts in which organic material formed. For this case study we applied this suite of multi-isotopic analyses to a dataset of 45 animal bones and …
Sheep Ahoy
Sheep and their wool were paramount to Viking Age economies. The importance of wool cannot be underestimated, especially as the woollen sail was implemented on ships in general during this period. This paper investigates sheep management and landscape use in Viking Age Löddeköpinge in Scania, southern Sweden, through a multiproxy approach, integrating multi‐isotope methods with zooarchaeological analysis. Using the marketplace at Löddeköpinge as …
The historical ecology of subsistence and early commercial fisheries in mangrove systems in Brazil
Human population growth and the technological advancements of the 20th and 21st centuries have significantly altered human-environment interactions and led to unprecedented anthropogenic footprints on coastal and ocean systems. Despite thousands of years of exploitation for subsistence and, later, commercial purposes, the ecology of mangrove fisheries along the Brazilian coast and the consequences of these activities remain poorly understood. Thi…
Mourir sur le champ de bataille en 1814. Identité, statut social, traitement des corps après la bataille d'Orthez
Ce document a t gnr automatiquement le 18 dcembre 2025.Le texte seul est utilisable sous
Author response of
A recommendation of: Samuel Bédécarrats, Mélie Le Roy, Kerry L. Sayle, Frédérique Blaizot, Maëlle Couvrat, Yves Gleize, Guillaume Leduc, Stéphane Rottier, Gwenaëlle Goude Isobiography of the first farmers: effects of age-estimating referential and statistical models on reconstructing infant life https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16362830
Naître et grandir dans l’Algérie préhistorique. Premières approches biogéochimiques sur des sépultures du site de Columnata (XIe-IXe millénaire BP, Tiaret, Algérie)
Découvert dans les années 1930, le site de Columnata (Sidi Hosni, Tiaret, Algérie) a livré du matériel archéologique et funéraire de plusieurs phases chrono-culturelles, de l’Épipaléolithique au Néolithique. Les dernières fouilles (2016-2023) conduites par l’Institut d’Archéologie d’Alger ont mis au jour différentes sépultures d’adultes et d’enfants datant du XIe au IXe millénaires BP. Dans le cadre du projet WomenSOFar (ANR-21-CE03-0008), les co…
Cold and arid climates experienced by Central European hunter-gatherers at Stránská skála IV during the Last Glacial Maximum
Several studies have argued that human presence in Central Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) may have been restricted to brief periods of climate warming. In particular, Greenland Interstadial-2 (GI-2, c.23,300–22,800 BP), a brief warm event recorded in Greenland ice-core stratigraphy, has been associated with human activity at Central European sites such as Kastelhöhle-Nord and Y-Höhle (Switzerland), and Kammern-Grubgraben (Austria). …
Mission impossible? Quantifying aquatic resource consumption in historic period Estonia (AD 1100‒1800)
Sulfur stable isotope ratios (δ 34 S) have become increasingly common in archaeology for studying paleodiet, especially in occasions where there is a need to identify aquatic resource consumption more accurately. This is particularly relevant in the Baltic Sea region, where brackish conditions tend to mask “typical” marine carbon isotopic signals. Here we report new δ 34 S values for 126 human bone collagen samples which will be analyzed together…
Younger Dryas reindeer in northwest Europe
Reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus ) played a central role in the subsistence strategies of Late and Final Palaeolithic populations across northern Europe, particularly during the Younger Dryas (c. 12,850–11,650 cal BP). However, while reindeer are known from securely dated Younger Dryas faunal contexts in Britain, they are not associated with archaeological assemblages, and there is currently no conclusive evidence for human presence in Britain at the…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (20 obras) · Geography (17 obras) · Isotope Analysis in Ecology (14 obras) · Geology (13 obras) · Archaeology (12 obras) · Biology (11 obras) · Ecology (11 obras) · Isotope analysis (9 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 obras) · Stable isotope ratio (8 obras)