Objectives This study investigates if palaeodietary information can be obtained from pulp stones through stable isotope analysis, presents a method for their extraction tooth samples, and assesses utility as source of paleodietary when coupled with the incremental dentine method. Materials Methods Six samples (2 per individual), four which contained stones, were selected three Early Neolithic (...

Multiethnicity in Teopancazco, Teotihuacan, is supported by foreign individuals found in the neighborhood center as well as by the diversity observed in funerary rituals at the site. Studies of both stable and strontium isotopes as well as paleodietary analysis, suggest that the population of Teopancazco was composed by three population groups: people from Teotihuacan, people from nearby sites ...

M ore than 50 y since the first announcement of Zinjanthropus boisei at Olduvai Gorge (1, 2), the diet of Paranthropus boisei, as it is now known, has continued to be the focus of study and debate. In part, this is because it has such distinctive features, shared in some degree with the South African australopith, Paranthropus robustus: a dished, buttressed face, strongly developed muscle attac...

Trace element profiles for common divalent cations (Sr, Zn, Ba), rare-earth elements (REE), Y, U, and Th were measured in fossil bones and teeth from the c. 25 ka Merrell locality, Montana, USA, by using laser-ablation ICP-MS. Multiple traverses in teeth were transformed into 2-D trace element maps for visualizing structural influences on trace element uptake. Trace element compositions of diff...

Nearly five decades ago Berggren and Van Couvering proposed an Old World “Hipparion Datum” wherein a North American Hipparion extended its range across Eurasia Africa as “instantaneous prochoresis” populating the World. Four Woodburne Bernor examined European African hipparion assemblages number of distinct lineages, sharply departing from mono-generic paradigm previous work. Through 1980s unti...