Finding Vikings with Isotope Analysis
The View from Wet and Windy Islands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4624100 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Montgomery (0000-0001-6729-3088, Durham University, corresponding author), Vaughan Grimes (0000-0002-2177-3147, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), Jo Buckberry (University of Bradford), Jane Evans (0000-0003-3667-494X), Jane A Evans (NIGL, BGS, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK), Michael P Richards, Michael Richards (0000-0001-5274-8887, University of British Columbia), James H Barrett (0000-0002-6683-9891, University of Cambridge) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | sp7 |
| Pages | 54-70 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the North Atlantic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1935-1933 • E-ISSN: 1935-1933 |
| Publisher | Journal of the North Atlantic (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3721/037.002.sp705 |
| OpenAlex | W1980202626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 60 |
Identifying people of exotic origins with isotopes depends upon finding isotopic attributes that are inconsistent with the indigenous population. This task is seldom straightforward and may vary with physical geography, through time, and with cultural practices. Isotopes and trace elements were measured in four Viking Age (8th to 10th centuries A.D.) skeletons from Dublin, Ireland, and three from Westness, Orkney. These were compared with other data from these locations and contemporaneous skeletons from Britain. We conclude that the male skeletons from Dublin have disparate origins, two originating beyond the shores of Ireland, and that the female and two male skeletons from Westness are not indigenous to Orkney. However, the homeland of the female, in contrast to the males, is unlikely to be in Scandinavia
Archaeology · Biology · Ethnology · Geography · Homeland · Indigenous · Isotope · Isotope analysis · Population · Shore · Sociology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Law · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology · Geology · Oceanography
Legitimation Through Association? Scandinavian Accompanied Burials and Pre-Historic Monuments in Orkney
Isotopic Data on Diet and Mobility from Pictish and Viking Age Orkney
Remembering the Vikings
Crossing the Maelstrom
Isotopic Evidence for Human Movement into Central England during the Early Neolithic
A multiple burial from the viking age in semigallia, Latvia
Reconnecting the dead in Iron Age Britain
Putting South-West England on the (strontium isotope) map
Early medieval reliance on the land and the local
Finding Vikings in the Danelaw
A Post-Roman Sequence at Carlisle Cathedral
The Role of Women in Plant-based Textile Production during the Viking Diaspora in Scotland and the Irish Sea Region
Dress and Dress Fasteners from the Pagan Norse Graves of Scotland
Ivory from early Anglo-Saxon burials in Lincolnshire – A biomolecular study
Diet and mobility in early medieval coastal Belgium
Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400–1100
Contribution of strontium to the human diet from querns and millstones
At the world's edge
Cuisine and culture-contact
Multi-isotopic evidence reveals the emergence of a cosmopolitan community at the Luistari cemetery in Eura, Finland, during the early Medieval period (600–1130 CE)
Mobility in a medieval industrial city
Isotopic Baselines in the North Atlantic Region
Ingroup identification, identity fusion and the formation of Viking war bands
Assembling places and persons
Rethinking the early Viking Age in the West
From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070
Dental Anthropology
The importance of sea spray to the cation budget of a coastal Hawaiian soil
Oxygen isotopes in mammal bone phosphate
Brewing and stewing
Differential diagenesis of strontium in archaeological human dental tissues
Spatial variations in biosphere 87 Sr/ 86 Sr in Britain
The O and H stable isotope composition of freshwaters in the British Isles. 2. Surface waters and groundwater
Resolving archaeological populations with Sr-isotope mixing models
An assessment of solubility profiling as a decontamination procedure for the 87Sr/86Sr analysis of archaeological human skeletal tissue
Precision KRbSr isotopic analysis
Isotope domain mapping of 87 Sr/ 86 Sr biosphere variation on the Isle of Skye, Scotland
Different contamination styles of prehistoric human teeth at a Swiss necropolis (Sion, Valais) inferred from lead and strontium isotopes
A summary of strontium and oxygen isotope variation in archaeological human tooth enamel excavated from Britain
The geographic distribution of strontium isotopes in Danish surface waters – A base for provenance studies in archaeology, hydrology and agriculture
Vikings in Scotland
The Viking Presence in England? The Burial Evidence Reconsidered
Contact or Conflict? What Can We Learn from the Island-Names of the Northern Isles?
The Viking World
L’Anse aux Meadows and Vinland
Excavations at the Viking Barrow Cemetery at Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire
Strontium Isotopes from the Earth to the Archaeological Skeleton
Passports from the past
Viking Ethnicities
Migration and Viking Dublin
Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Animal Bone Phosphate
Sprouting Like Cockle Amongst the Wheat’
Finding Vikings in the Danelaw
A Viking Age cemetery at Cnip, Uig, Isle of Lewis
Excavation of medieval graves at St Thomas' Kirk, Hall of Rendall, Orkney
A Burial of a Viking Woman at Adwick-le-Street, South Yorkshire
The Potential of Carbonized Grain to Preserve Biogenic 87 Sr/ 86 Sr Signatures Within the Burial Environment
Technical note
Continuity or colonization in Anglo‐Saxon England? Isotope evidence for mobility, subsistence practice, and status at West Heslerton
Strontium Isotopes and Prehistoric Human Migration
Impious Easterners
Identity, Gender, Religion and Economy
Investigating population movement by stable isotope analysis
Assessing the preservation of biogenic strontium in fossil bones and tooth enamel
A Boat Load of Vikings
British Iron Age chariot burials of the Arras culture
Who was in Harold Bluetooth's army? Strontium isotope investigation of the cemetery at the Viking Age fortress at Trelleborg, Denmark
Diet and ethnicity during the Viking colonization of northern Scotland
The first settlers of Iceland
Repton and the Vikings
Evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |