Hair as a Window on Diet and Health in Post-Medieval London: an isotopic analysis
Isotopic analysis of bone for dietary reconstruction has been routinely practised in archaeology since the 1970s (Vogel and Van der Merwe 1977) and provides a long-term average of the diet over the last 10-30 years before death (Hedges et al. 2007). Unlike bone, however, hair grows incrementally (~1...
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University of York
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Internet Archaeology |
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| Online Access: | http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue42/6/12.cfm |