Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

Seasonality and season of birth of modern and late Neolithic sheep from south-eastern France using tooth enamel δ18O analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID11902495
AuthorsÉmilie Blaise (0000-0002-1327-046X, Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique, corresponding author), M Balasse (0000-0003-1925-5110, Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique)
Year2011
Volume38
Issue11
Pages3085-3093
Publication date2011-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Archaeological Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-4403 • E-ISSN: 1095-9238
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.jas.2011.07.007
OpenAlexW2080542410
LanguageEN
Citations received64
References cited27

Animal science · Biology · Domestic sheep reproduction · Enamel paint · Geography · Molar · Population · Season of birth · Seasonality · Tooth enamel · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Dentistry · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Medicine · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology · Paleontology

  • Oxygen isotopes in bioarchaeology

    Open Access•Sarah Pederzani, K Britton•Earth-Science Reviews•2019

  • The agropastoral debate in context

    Open Access•Flint Dibble, Alexandra J Nederbragt et al.•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2026

  • Géoarchéologie des aires de parcage du Néolithique final dans le Midi

    Open Access•Alessandro Peinetti, Julia Wattez et al.•Palethnologie•2023

  • Rythmes saisonniers des élevages préhistoriques en Europe tempérée

    Open Access•M Balasse, D Frémondeau et al.•Les Nouvelles de l archéologie•2015

  • Becoming sedentary? The seasonality of food resource exploitation in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges

    Open Access•Vesna Dimitrijević, Ivana Živaljević et al.•Documenta Praehistorica•2016

  • Up the mountain and back again

    Open Access•Laura C Eastham, Steve Rhode•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2025

  • Early herding at Măgura-Boldul lui Moş Ivănuş (early sixth millennium BC, Romania)

    Open Access•M Balasse, Adrian Bălășescu et al.•European Journal of Archaeology•2013

  • Food Supply Strategies in the Romanian Eneolithic

    Open Access•Stéphanie Bréhard, Valentin Radu et al.•European Journal of Archaeology•2014

  • Neolithic sheep birth distribution

    Open Access•M Balasse, Léo Renault-Fabregon et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2020

  • Testing the use of southern France and Cyprus mouflons as a reference to reconstruct birth season in sheep from oxygen isotope analysis in teeth

    Open Access•Eléa Gutierrez, Angelos Hadjikoumis et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2025

  • Dietary ecology of extant guanaco (Lama guanicoe) from Southern Patagonia

    Open Access•F Rivals, Diego Rindel et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2013

  • Dietary reconstruction, mobility, and the analysis of ancient skeletal tissues

    Open Access•C A Makarewicz, Judith Sealy•Journal of Archaeological Science•2015

  • Dentin collagen sample geometry impacts pattern of intra-tooth nitrogen and carbon isotope change in taurine teeth

    Open Access•Christine Winter-Schuh, Rebekka Eckelmann et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2025

  • Seasonality of birth and diet of pigs from stable isotope analyses of tooth enamel (δ18O, δ13C)

    Open Access•D Frémondeau, Thomas Cucchi et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2012

  • Simulating the formation of herbivore tooth death assemblages to improve expectations for paleoenvironmental reconstruction from intra-tooth isotopic analysis

    Open Access•Alexandra L Norwood, Benjamin Davies et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2025

  • Vertical transhumance of sheep and goats identified by intra-tooth sequential carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) isotopic analyses

    Open Access•C A Makarewicz, Benjamin S Arbuckle et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2017

  • Seasonality and season of birth in early Eneolithic sheep from Cheia (Romania)

    Open Access•C Tornero, Adrian Bălășescu et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2013

  • The combined use of oxygen isotopes and microwear in sheep teeth to elucidate seasonal management of domestic herds

    Open Access•Elizabeth Henton•Journal of Archaeological Science•2012

  • Discriminating management strategies in modern and archaeological domestic caprines using low-magnification and confocal dental microwear analyses

    Open Access•Juan José Ibáñez, Sergio Jiménez-Manchón et al.•Quaternary International•2020

  • Perinatal ovicaprine remains and evidence of shepherding activities in Early Holocene enclosure caves

    Open Access•Patricia Martins, Ricardo García‐González et al.•Quaternary International•2016

  • Resource allocation and rising complexity during the Iron Age IIA

    Open Access•Kara Larson, Elizabeth Arnold et al.•Quaternary International•2023

  • Were European steppe bison migratory? 18O, 13C and Sr intra-tooth isotopic variations applied to a palaeoethological reconstruction

    Open Access•Marie-Anne Julien, H Bocherens et al.•Quaternary International•2012

  • Mountain adaptation of caprine herding in the eastern Pyrenees during the Bronze Age

    Open Access•Juliette Knockaert, M Balasse et al.•Quaternary International•2018

  • Exploring low-magnification dental microwear of domestic ungulates

    Open Access•Sergio Jiménez-Manchón, Émilie Blaise et al.•Quaternary International•2020

  • Sheep for the soldiers

    Open Access•Chen Sun, Ningning Dong et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2022

  • Seasonal reproductive patterns of early domestic sheep at Tell Halula (PPNB, Middle Euphrates Valley)

    Open Access•C Tornero, M Balasse et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2015

  • Heading for the hills? A multi-isotope study of sheep management in first-millennium BC Italy

    Open Access•Angela Trentacoste, E Lightfoot et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2019

  • From texts to teeth

    Open Access•Valasia Isaakidou, Amy K Styring et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2018

  • Milk and meat exploitation, autumn lambing and use of forest resources in Neolithic Corsican sheep farming systems (fifth to third millennia cal BC)

    Open Access•Mélanie Fabre, Vianney Forest et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2023

  • Diversity in pig husbandry from the Classical-Hellenistic to the Byzantine periods

    Open Access•D Frémondeau, Bea De Cupere et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2016

  • Standardized pork production at the Celtic village of Levroux Les Arènes (France, 2nd c. BC)

    Open Access•D Frémondeau, Marie-Pierre Horard-Herbin et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2015

  • Analysis of seasonal mobility of sheep in Iron Age Catalonia (north-eastern Spain) based on strontium and oxygen isotope analysis from tooth enamel

    Open Access•Sílvia Valenzuela-Lama, Sergio Jiménez-Manchón et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2015

  • Gazelle seasonal mobility in the Jordanian steppe

    Open Access•Elizabeth Henton, Louise Martins et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2016

  • Preliminary analysis of dental cementum of Lama guanicoe for the estimation of age and season at death

    Open Access•Lionel Gourichon, Vanesa E Parmigiani•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2016

  • Sheep husbandry in the early Neolithic of the Pyrenees

    Open Access•Alejandro Sierra, M Balasse et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2021

  • Tracing Mobility Patterns of Buried Species of the Late Iron Age Funerary Staggered Turriform of Son Ferrer (Calvià, Spain)

    Open Access•Lua Valenzuela-Suau, Sílvia Valenzuela-Lama et al.•Open Archaeology•2023

  • Diversified livestock management and urban adaptation in the early Shang capital of Zhengzhou

    Open Access•Ting Gu, Tianyang Gu et al.•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2026

  • Calving seasonality at Pool, Orkney during the first millennium AD

    Jacqueline Towers, Ingrid Mainland et al.•Environmental Archaeology•2016

  • Preliminary ethnoarchaeological research on modern animal husbandry in Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan

    Sinikka Elliott, Robin Bendrey et al.•Environmental Archaeology•2014

  • Neolithic and Bronze Age ungulate footprint-tracks of the Severn Estuary

    Kirsten Barr, Martin Bell•Environmental Archaeology•2016

  • Season of birth and sheep husbandry in late Roman and Medieval coastal Flanders

    Michelle Buchan, Gundula Müldner et al.•Environmental Archaeology•2015

  • Experimental Data from Lacaune and Merino Sheep Provide New Methodological and Theoretical Grounds to Investigate Autumn Lambing in Past Husbandries

    Open Access•M Balasse, Philippe Chemineau et al.•Journal of Archaeological Method…•2023

  • Multi-Season Reproduction and Pastoralist Production Strategies

    H Chazin•Journal of Field Archaeology•2021

  • Exponentially decreasing tooth growth rate in horse teeth

    Open Access•Robin Bendrey, Dominic Vella et al.•Archaeometry•2015

  • An Investigation of Cattle Birth Seasonality using δ 13 C and δ 18 O Profiles within First Molar Enamel

    Open Access•Jacqueline Towers, Andrew Gledhill et al.•Archaeometry•2014

  • Examining Childhood Diets at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala, Through Stable Isotopic Analysis of Sequential Enamel Microsamples

    Open Access•Lori E Wright•Archaeometry•2013

  • New Statistical Approaches to Intra‐individual Isotopic Analysis and Modelling of Birth Seasonality in Studies of Herd Animals

    Open Access•H Chazin, Soudeep Deb et al.•Archaeometry•2019

  • Oxygen isotope analysis of human bone phosphate evidences weaning age in archaeological populations

    Open Access•K Britton, Benjamin T Fuller et al.•American Journal of Physical…•2015

  • Early sheep herd management in the inland of the Iberian Peninsula

    Open Access•Patricia Martins, Carlos Tornero et al.•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2021

  • Isotopic perspectives on pastoralist mobility in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus

    Open Access•H Chazin, Gwyneth W Gordon et al.•Journal of Anthropological…•2019

  • Investigating Past Livestock Mobility Using δ34S Stable Isotopes

    Open Access•E Zavodny, B Mcclure et al.•Open Quaternary•2022

  • Testing the Sample Preparation Method and Oxygen Isotopic Analysis of Tooth Enamel for the Reconstruction of the Birth Seasonality of Ovicaprines (the Case of Teeth from Istykskaya Cave, Eastern Pamir)

    Open Access•K A Babina, К А Babina et al.•Archaeology Ethnology and…•2024

  • The altitudinal mobility of wild sheep at the Epigravettian site of Kalavan 1 (Lesser Caucasus, Armenia)

    Open Access•C Tornero, M Balasse et al.•Journal of Human Evolution•2016

  • Herding in mountain pastures

    Open Access•H Chazin•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2025

  • Animal husbandry in the Early and Middle Neolithic settlement at Kopydłowo in the Polish lowlands. A multi-isotope perspective

    Open Access•A Marciniak, Jane Evans et al.•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2017

  • Livestock management at the Late Iron Age site of Baltarga (eastern Pyrenees)

    Open Access•L Colominas, M Portillo et al.•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2023

  • Bioarchaeological approaches to understanding the long-term development of mountain societies

    Open Access•Kevin Walsh, Juliette Knockaert et al.•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2023

  • Choose what suits you best

    Open Access•Chiara Messana, Carlos Tornero et al.•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2023

  • Resource depression, climate change, and mountain sheep in the eastern Great Basin of western North America

    Open Access•Jacob L Fisher, Benjamin Valentine•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2013

  • Caprine management at Archaic and Classical period Argilos in northern Greece

    Open Access•Rudolph Alagich, Angelos Gkotsinas et al.•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2025

  • Beyond the herd

    Open Access•Chiara Messana, C Tornero et al.•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2025

  • Neonatal Mortality, Young Calf Slaughter and Milk Production during the Early Neolithic of North Western Mediterranean

    Open Access•R Gillis, Rosalind E Gillis et al.•International Journal of…•2016

  • Early domestication and farming

    Open Access•Jean-Denis Vigne, Jean‐denis Vigne•Anthropozoologica•2015

  • Intra-tooth isotopic analysis (δ13C and δ15N) of dentine collagen in high-crowned teeth

    Open Access•Celia Díez‐canseco, Mònica Aguilera et al.•International Journal of…•2022

  • The isotope record of short- and long-term dietary changes in sheep tooth enamel

    Open Access•Antoine Zazzo, M Balasse et al.•Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta•2010

  • Oxygen isotopes in mammal bone phosphate

    Open Access•Antonio Longinelli•Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta•1984

  • Fractionation of oxygen isotopes between mammalian bone-phosphate and environmental drinking water

    Open Access•Boaz Luz, Yehoshua Kolodny et al.•Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta•1984

  • Stable isotopes in precipitation

    Open Access•W Dansgaard•Tellus B: Chemical and Physical…•1964

  • Oxygen isotope partitioning between phosphate and carbonate in mammalian apatite

    Open Access•J Daniel Bryant, Paul L Koch et al.•Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta•1996

  • Variability in oxygen isotope compositions of herbivore teeth

    Open Access•Matthew J Kohn, Margaret J Schoeninger et al.•Chemical Geology•1998

  • Inter- and intra-tooth variation in the oxygen isotope composition of mammalian tooth enamel phosphate

    Open Access•Henry C Fricke, Henry Fricke et al.•Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology…•1996

  • Holocene climate variability as reflected by mid-European lake-level fluctuations and its probable impact on prehistoric human settlements

    Open Access•Michel Magny•Quaternary International•2004

  • Stable isotope evidence for seasonal consumption of marine seaweed by modern and archaeological sheep in the Orkney archipelago (Scotland)

    M Balasse, Ingrid Mainland et al.•Environmental Archaeology•2009

  • Distinguishing sheep and goats using dental morphology and stable carbon isotopes in C4 grassland environments

    Open Access•M Balasse, H Ambrose et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2005

  • Determining Sheep Birth Seasonality by Analysis of Tooth Enamel Oxygen Isotope Ratios

    Open Access•M Balasse, Andrew B Smith et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2002

  • Morphological distinctions between the mandibular teeth of young sheep, Ovis, and goats, Capra

    Open Access•Sebastian Payne•Journal of Archaeological Science•1985

  • The Seasonal Mobility Model for Prehistoric Herders in the South-western Cape of South Africa Assessed by Isotopic Analysis of Sheep Tooth Enamel

    Open Access•M Balasse, H Ambrose et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2002

  • The Effects of Sample Treatment and Diagenesis on the Isotopic Integrity of Carbonate in Biogenic Hydroxylapatite

    Open Access•Paul L Koch, N Turo et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•1997

  • Sorting the Sheep from the Goats

    Open Access•P Halstead, P Collins et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2002

  • The Use of Oxygen Isotopes in Sheep Molars to Investigate Past Herding Practices at the Neolithic Settlement of Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia

    Open Access•Elizabeth Henton, Wolfram Meier‐Augenstein et al.•Archaeometry•2010

  • Potential biases in sampling design and interpretation of intra-tooth isotope analysis

    Open Access•M Balasse•International Journal of…•2003

  • Reconstructing dietary and environmental history from enamel isotopic analysis

    Open Access•M Balasse•International Journal of…•2002

Unique citing works64
Citations per year4,57
Citation span2012 - 2026 (15)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 64
Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae