Overview
- Provides up-to-date studies in isotopic proveniencing
- Offers recommendations for best practice
- Includes contributions from leading figures in the field
Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology (IDCA)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Archaeometry Isotopic Proveniencing
- Bioarchaeology Isotopic Proveniencing
- Geoarchaeology Isotopic Proveniencing
- Isotopic proveniencing
- Lead isotopes archaeology
- Mobility and migration Isotopic Proveniencing
- Oxygen isotopes archaeology
- Strontium isotopes archaeology
- Sulfur isotopes archaeology
- Provenience anthropology archaeology bioarchaeology
- Isotopic Analyses in the Andes
- Isotopic Analyses macro to micro scale
- Transition to agriculture
- Isotopic studies of human and animal mobility
- Intraregional patterns of social relationships late prehistory
- Intraregional patterns economic relationships late prehistory
About this book
This volume provides a state-of-the-art presentation and discussion of procedures, especially what works and what doesn’t — on isotopic proveniencing, learned over the last 30 years. The volume focuses on application, not method, to emphasize to the reader the wide range of questions that can be addressed using isotopic proveniencing. Topics covered include samples, baselines, isoscapes, and place of origin.
Isotopic proveniencing has become almost standard procedure in the analysis of archaeological burials as a means of distinguishing locals from foreigners. The combination of isotopic proveniencing and DNA has moved archaeological interest in migration and mobility to the fore, but there is very little synthetic work published for either technology.The field has evolved and new procedures and guidelines have emerged that have not been widely heard and this volume seeks to rectify this. The contributors have been selected from among the leaders in the field, those with active research and hands-on experience with the technology. This volume is of relevance to archaeologists.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof. T. Douglas Price’s archaeological research has been multifaceted for the last 30 years, encompassing archaeological chemistry, fieldwork in Denmark focused on the last hunters and first farmers, the institutionalization of inequality in human society, and the origins of agriculture. His research has been supported largely by the National Science Foundation in the USA and he has been continuously funded by that agency over this period. He has published much of his research in books (25) and scientific papers (250). He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018. He retired a few years ago as Weinstein Professor of European Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry which he established in 1988. Most of his recent research has focused on the application of isotopes in the study of past human mobility, using strontium, oxygen, and lead isotopes in human tooth enamel as a signature of place of birth since enamel forms at a very young age and changes very little during life or after death. Their laboratory has been involved in projects all over the world with major involvement in Northern and Western Europe, the North Atlantic, the American Southwest, China, and Mesoamerica. They have measured hundreds of enamel samples from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark and been involved in a wide range of projects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Isotopic Proveniencing and Mobility
Book Subtitle: The Current State of Research
Editors: T. Douglas Price
Series Title: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25722-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25721-6Published: 31 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25724-7Published: 01 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-25722-3Published: 30 March 2023
Series ISSN: 1568-2722
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6984
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 273
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Archaeology, Archaeology