Prehistoric Human Bone

Experimental Evidence for the Relationship of the Carbon Isotope Ratios of Whole Diet and Dietary Protein to Those of Bone Collagen and Carbonate.- Age Differences and Population Variation in Stable Isotope Values from Ontario, Canada.- Light, Stable Isotopes and the Subsistence Base of Formative Cultures at Valdivia, Ecuador.- Isotopic Evidence for Diets of Prehistoric Farmers in South Africa.- Effect of Diet Quality and Composition on the Isotopic Composition of Respiratory CO2, Bone Collagen, Bioapatite, and Soft Tissues.- Ba/Ca as a Diagenetic Indicator for Evaluating Buried Bone Tissues: Advances in Tissue Selection, Reducing Contamination and Data Evaluation.- Reproducibility and Reliability of Trace Element Analysis in an Italian Medieval Necropolis.- Baselines and Variabilities of Major and Trace Elements in Bone.- Indicators for Seasonality in Trace Element Patterns.- Dietary Inferences from Element Analyses of Bone.- The Investigation of Lipids in Organic Residues by Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry: Applications to Palaeodietary Studies.- Initial Stages of Bone Decomposition: Causes and Consequences.- The Other Molecules in Ancient Bone: Noncollagenous Proteins and DNA.- Abrasion as an Intrinsic Factor in Palaeodiet.

Gisela Grupe ist Professorin für Anthropologie an der LMU München.