A geostatistical model to predict human skeletal oxygen isotope values (δ18Op) in Britain is presented here based on a new dataset of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age human teeth. The spatial statistics which underpin this model allow the identification of individuals interpreted as 'non-local' to the areas where they were buried (spatial outliers). A marked variation in δ18Op is observed in s...

One of the more intractable problems that archaeobiologists struggle with is how to characterise ancient subsistence systems when the plant and animal remains that we study are incommensurate in so many ways. Three examples from the upper Euphrates and Iran illustrate how changes in plant remains are associated with changes in animal exploitation. Two of them consider the agropastoral continuum...

The relationship between residence, gender and mobility is central to the study of early social complexity. And yet, until recently, it was deemed as archaeologically intractable. recent combination strontium data genomics with other methods has opened up entirely new possibilities for archaeological human mobility, but these advances are not without problems. Theoretical framing, empirical acc...

In this paper charcoals from the Syrian sites Tell Mozan and Jerablus are investigated to understand impact of 4th 2nd millennium BC settlement on vegetation. Charcoals these have been identified oak fragments measured for their maximal diameter annual ring widths. Our results show that while had reached its expansion in Mid-Holocene, vegetation Euphrates Valley was lusher than today, strong an...