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ReviewCommunications earth & environment2025

The palaeoenvironmental potential of bioarchaeological isotope data.

Margaux L C Depaermentier, Michael Kempf, Marc Vander Linden, Kate Britton, Richard Madgwick, Ulf Büntgen, Dorothée G Drucker, Jennifer R Jones, Christophe Snoeck, Rhiannon E Stevens

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Review in Communications earth & environment, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Margaux L C DepaermentierDepartment of Ancient Civilizations, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1801-3358
Michael KempfQuaternary Geology, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-9474-4670
Marc Vander LindenInstitute for the Modelling of Socio-Environmental Transitions, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Poole, Bournemouth, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0120-7754
Kate BrittonDepartment of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9478-5966
Richard MadgwickSchool of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4396-3566
Ulf BüntgenDepartment of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3821-0818
Dorothée G DruckerSenckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment an der Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0854-4371
Jennifer R JonesResearch Centre for Field Archaeology and Forensic Taphonomy, School of Law and Policing, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9247-7994
Christophe SnoeckArchaeology, Environmental changes and Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-3770-4055
Rhiannon E StevensUCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6140-4549

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bioarchaeology not only provides insights into human, animal, and environmental ecology, but also generates huge amounts of stable and radiogenic isotope data that are not well recognised by other disciplines. Here, we present potential avenues for the integration and interpretation of archaeological isotope data into environmental studies. We emphasise the large spatio-temporal scales on which isotope patterns can be observed, for example using isoscapes, the limitations and potential pitfalls that come with isotope data from archaeological research, and future cross-disciplinary collaborations between bioarchaeology and other palaeo-disciplines.

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