دورية أكاديمية
Hair as a Window on Diet and Health in Post-Medieval London: an isotopic analysis
العنوان: | Hair as a Window on Diet and Health in Post-Medieval London: an isotopic analysis |
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المؤلفون: | Chloe Brown, Michelle Alexander |
المصدر: | Internet Archaeology, Iss 42 (2016) |
بيانات النشر: | University of York, 2016. |
سنة النشر: | 2016 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Archaeology |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Archaeology, hair, post-medieval, London, diet, health, isotopic analysis, wig, Elizabeth Robinson, CC1-960 |
الوصف: | 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 (~1cm a month for human hair), providing time series information, and offering a valuable window on diet during the final months before death (White 1993; Kutschera and Mϋller 2003; Wilson et al. 2007; see Wilson, this issue). Despite this, hair has received comparatively little attention, primarily owing to its poor preservation on archaeological sites, mummies being an exception (see Wilson, this issue). Post-medieval remains, however, present an ideal case study, often being well preserved and possessing biographical data giving additional context. This short article presents a study of incremental analysis of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes from hair sampled from a 19th-century individual, 'Elizabeth Robinson' (skeleton 48, Figure 1) deriving from an assemblage from St Barnabas church, West Kensington, where 55/58 burials had name plates and recorded dates of birth and death. She lived between 1768 and 1840, and died at 72 years of age. The research forms part of a wider project on post-medieval diets (Brown 2014). |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 1363-5387 |
العلاقة: | http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue42/6/12.cfmTest; https://doaj.org/toc/1363-5387Test |
DOI: | 10.11141/ia.42.6.12 |
الوصول الحر: | https://doaj.org/article/84917b5cbb79497c9e109fe5cee18a39Test |
رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.84917b5cbb79497c9e109fe5cee18a39 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |